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

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作者：
Harnad, Stevan [1 ,2 ]
机构：
[1] Univ Quebec, Chaire Rech Canada, Inst Cognit Sci, Montreal, PQ H3C 3P8, Canada
[2] Univ Southampton, Dept Elect & Comp Sci, Southampton SO17 1BJ, Hants, England
来源：
BEHAVIORAL AND BRAIN SCIENCES | 2008年 / 31卷 / 05期
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D O I：
10.1017/S0140525X08005153
中图分类号：
B84 [心理学];
学科分类号：
04 ; 0402 ;
摘要：
Christiansen & Chater (C&C) suggest that language is an organism, like us, and that our brains were not selected for Universal Grammar (UG) capacity; rather, languages were selected for learnability with minimal trial-and-error experience by our brains. This explanation is circular; Where did our brain's selective capacity to learn all and only UG-compliant languages come from?
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