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Origin of Language
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RE: Origin of Language
FYI, my main study on language origins has been B.F. Skinner's Behavioral theory and his disagreements with Noam Chomsky, and then later the work of Steven Pinker. I think Chomsky has some interesting linguistic theories. He was the one who actually got me to wonder how evolutionary theory explained language origins. I assumed, perhaps without validity, that most atheists were evolutionists.
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Origin of Language - by JMT - February 22, 2018 at 2:04 pm
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