Why and how the problem of the evolution of Universal Grammar (UG) is hard

Universal Grammar (UG) is a complicated set of grammatical rules that underlies our grammatical capacity. We all follow the rules of UG, but we were never taught them, and we could not have learned them from trial and error experience either (not enough data, or time). So UG must be inborn. But for...

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Main Author: Harnad, Stevan (Author)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: 2008-10.
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