Is the Language Faculty Non Linguistic?

• Main Author: Umberto Ansaldo (auth)
• Other Authors: N. J. Enfield (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media SA 2016
• Series: Frontiers Research Topics
• Subjects: Psychology; development; syntax; Innateness; evolution; semantics; universal grammar; phonology
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

A line of research in cognitive science over several decades has been dedicated to finding an innate, language-specific cognitive system, a faculty which allows human infants to acquire languages natively without formal instruction and within short periods of time. In recent years, this search has a...