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Direct linkWhite, Stephanie A. – Brain and Language, 2010
Could a mutation in a single gene be the evolutionary lynchpin supporting the development of human language? A rare mutation in the molecule known as FOXP2 discovered in a human family seemed to suggest so, and its sequence phylogeny reinforced a Chomskian view that language emerged wholesale in humans. Spurred by this discovery, research in…
Descriptors: Genetics, Language Acquisition, Molecular Structure, Linguistic Theory
