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Universal Grammar and Biological Variation: An EvoDevo Agenda for Comparative Biolinguistics
2014
Biological Theory
Recent advances in genetics and neurobiology have greatly increased the degree of variation that one finds in what is taken to provide the biological foundations of our species-specific linguistic capacities. In particular, this variation seems to cast doubt on the purportedly homogeneous nature of the language faculty traditionally captured by the concept of "Universal Grammar." In this article we discuss what this new source of diversity reveals about the biological reality underlying
doi:10.1007/s13752-014-0164-0
pmid:24955079
pmcid:PMC4052002
fatcat:za4upl5mzzfq5ntirrvza7hrey