WHY ONLY US
Berwick, Robert C. / Chomsky, Noam We are born crying, but those cries signal the first stirring of language. Within a year or so, infants master the sound system of their language, a few years after that, they are engaging in conversations. This remarkable, species-specific ability to acquire any human language¿"the language faculty¿¿raises important biological questions about language, including how it has evolved. This book by two distinguished scholars¿a computer scientist ...