Humans are the only species known to use fully symbolic language: a system capable of expressing abstract ideas, imaginary worlds and endless combinations of meaning. But how did we get there? The ...

Notes on contributors -- Language contact: reconsideration and reassessment / Raymond Hickey -- Part I. Contact and linguistics: 1. Contact explanations in linguistics / Sarah Thomason -- 2. Genetic ...

The idea that we have brains hardwired with a mental template for learning grammar—famously espoused by Noam Chomsky of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology—has dominated linguistics for almost ...

A key aspect of human intelligence is our ability to build theories about the world. This faculty is most clearly manifested in the historical development of science 1 but also occurs in miniature in ...

If there is one most distinguishing feature that makes us human, it would be our ability to enunciate words, aka language. Through language, we convey our feelings and thoughts as well as influence ...