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 ...

Researchers have found two important building blocks of human speech in wild chimpanzees, one of our closest relatives. A pair of studies finds that chimp communication includes both rhythmic ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract A comparison is presented of Indian urban and rural sign languages of the deaf. The structures of both languages are designed for efficient ...