The idea that we have brains hardwired with a mental template for learning grammar—famously espoused by Noam Chomsky of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology—has dominated linguistics for almost ...

Vol. 12, No. 4, Special Issue on GENERAL NATIVISM AND SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION (October 1996), pp. 335-373 (39 pages) Published By: Sage Publications, Ltd. This article is about nativist theories ...

Humans are storytelling beings. As far as we know, no other species has the capacity for language and ability to use it in endlessly creative ways. From our earliest days, we name and describe things.

Over the past several years, there has been an increased research output in the field of language acquisition and its effects on the brain. This is especially true with regards to the effects of ...