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Author: Chomsky Noam.

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International Journal of Philosophical Studies Vol. 15 (1), 1–21.
Biolinguistic inquiry investigates the human language faculty as an internal biological property. This article traces the development of biolinguistics from its early philosophical origins through its reformulation during the cognitive revolution of the 1950s and outlines my views on where the biolinguistic enterprise stands today. The growth of language in the individual, it is suggested, depends on (i) genetic factors, (ii) experience, and (iii) principles that are not specific to the faculty of language. The best current explanation of how language is recursively generated is through Merge, an operation that takes objects already constructed, and reconstructs a new object from them, generating a ‘language of thought’, perhaps in a manner close to optimal (relying on principles of category (iii)), with externalization (hence communication) a secondary process. The concluding The concluding section of the article offers several objectives for future research in the field.
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