| The standard nativist
answer |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| l | Language is
unique because our brains are unique. |
||||||||
| l | We (and no other
species) are born with a specialised innate |
||||||||
| cognitive
mechanism for learning language. |
|||||||||
| l | Language is the
way it is because our biology constrains it to be that |
||||||||
| way. |
|||||||||
| l | It’s the job of
linguistics to deduce the structure of the language |
||||||||
| acquisition
device: Universal Grammar. |
|||||||||
| l | (And that’s it!) |
||||||||