title: Language from a biological perspective.
abstract: The faculty of language is unique to the human species. This implies that there are human-specific biological changes that lie at the basis of human language. However, it is not clear what the nature of such changes are, and how they could be shaped by evolution. In this paper, emphasis is laid on describing language in a Chomskyan manner, as a mental object. This serves as a standpoint to speculate about the biological basis of the emergence and evolution of language.
authors.affiliation: Cognitive Neuroscience Sector, International School for Advanced Studies, Via Beirut 2-4, Trieste 34014, Italy. shukla@sissa.it
authors.forename: Mohinish
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Shukla
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D005075:Biological Evolution; D006801:Humans; D007802:Language; D008954:Models, Biological