What is the human language faculty? two views

Language

Volumn 87, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 586-624

  Jackendoff, Ray ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Consciousness; Evolution; Lexicon; Merge; Narrow faculty of language; Parallel architecture; Recursion; Unification

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052860232     PISSN: 00978507     EISSN: 15350665     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/lan.2011.0063     Document Type: Article

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