How can an infinite number of sentences be generated from one human mind?
How did language evolve in apes? In this book Donald Loritz addresses
these and other fundamental and vexing questions about language, cognition,
and the human brain. He starts by tracing how evolution and natural
adaptation selected certain features of the brain to perform communication
functions, then shows how those features developed into designs for human
language. The result - what Loritz calls an adaptive grammar - gives
a unified explanation of language in the brain and contradicts directly
(and controversially) the theory of innateness proposed by, among others,
Chomsky and Pinker.

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