Language as an adaptation to the cognitive niche

By Steven Pinker, Simon Kirby, Morten H. Christiansen. 2003

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Subfields: Cultural Studies

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1. N. Chater
2. Morten H. Christiansen
3. Ray Jackendoff

Citations in the corpus

• Language as shaped by the brain. (2008, background): “Language acquisition is frequently viewed as a standard problem of induction (e.g., Gold 1967; Jain et al. 1999; Osherson et al. 1986; Pinker 1984; 1989), where there is a vast space of possible grammars that are consistent with the linguistic data to which the child is exposed.”
• The faculty of language: what's special about it? (2005, background): “As HCF note (p. 1672), the two of us have both advanced a position rather different from theirs, namely that the language faculty, like other biological systems showing signs of complex adaptive design (Dawkins, 1986; Williams, 1966), is a system of co-adapted traits that evolved by natural selectio”