title: Language: UG or not to be, that is the question.
abstract: Language is not the same as speech or communication; rather, it is a computational cognitive system. It has appeared very recently, consistent with a minimalist view of language's hierarchical syntactic structure.
authors: Cognitive Neurobiology and Helmholtz Institute, Departments of Psychology and Biology, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands; Department of Zoology and Sidney Sussex College, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
authors: Johan J
authors: JJ
authors: Bolhuis
authors: Division of Anthropology, American Museum of Natural History, New York, New York, United States of America.
authors: Ian
authors: I
authors: Tattersall
authors: Department of Linguistics and Philosophy, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America.
authors: Noam
authors: N
authors: Chomsky
authors: Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science and Brain and Cognitive Sciences, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America.
authors: Robert C
authors: RC
authors: Berwick
mesh_terms: D005075:Biological Evolution; D006801:Humans; D007802:Language