包邮应用型大学英语综合教程:6:学生用书

Language is an innate faculty, rather than a learned behavior. This idea was the primary insight of Noam Chomsky, and its implications are both simple and profound. Ifinnate, language must be genetic. It is hardwired within us from conception and evolved from structures and genes with analogues existing throughout the animal kingdom. In as ense, language is universal. Yet we humans are the only species with the ability for what may rightly be called language and, moreover, we have specific linguistic behaviors that seem to have appeared only within the past 200,000 years-an eye-blink for evolution. ……