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Universal grammar and the Baldwin effect: A hypothesis and some philosophical consequences

机译：普遍语法和鲍德温效应：一个假设和一些哲学后果

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Grammar is now widely regarded as a substantially biological phenomenon, yet the problem of language evolution remains a matter of controversy among Linguists, Cognitive Scientists, and Evolutionary Theorists alike. In this paper, I present a new theoretical argument for one particular hypothesis-that a "Language Acquisition Device" of the sort first posited by Noam Chomsky might have evolved via the so-called "Baldwin Effect". Close attention to the workings of that mechanism, I argue, helps to explain a previously mysterious feature of the Language Acquisition Device-the sheer variety of languages it allows the child to learn-thereby revealing a far stronger case than adherents of the hypothesis have previously supposed. A further unheralded consequence of the hypothesis is a conceptual shift in the Chomskyan understanding of language, wherein the essentially public nature of language is freshly emphasised. This has the effect of bringing the Chomskyan view into closer accord with Saussurean accounts of language, as well as with recent trends in evolutionary theory.
机译：语法现在被广泛认为是一种基本的生物学现象，但是语言进化问题仍然是语言学家，认知科学家和进化论理论家之间的争议问题。在本文中，我针对一个特定的假设提出了一种新的理论论证，即由Noam Chomsky最初提出的那种“语言获取装置”可能已经通过所谓的“鲍德温效应”进化了。我认为，密切关注该机制的工作原理有助于解释语言习得设备以前神秘的功能-它允许儿童学习的多种语言-从而揭示出比假设的坚持者更强大的案例。应该。该假设的另一个未曾预料的结果是乔姆斯基语言对语言理解的概念转变，其中重新强调了语言的本质公共性质。这具有使乔姆斯基主义的观点与索绪尔的语言解释以及进化论的最新趋势更加接近的效果。

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