The roots of current biolinguistic thought: Revisiting the "chomsky-Piaget debate" in the context of the revival of biolinguistics

Teorema

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 83-94

  Boeckx, Cedric ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Biolinguistics; Chomsky; Cognitive Science; Development; Piaget; Universal Grammar

Indexed keywords

EID: 84905495973     PISSN: 02101602     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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