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The Evolution of Language

New Books in Language

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The Problem With Invasive Experiments in Language

The neural basis for what they do, essentially unknown. In the case of humans, it's especially difficult because of ethical reasons. You don't permit ourselves to do the kinds of experiments that we should lie to. We've learned a lot about how it works but there's no other organism to work on in the case of language.

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