Psychologists argue that human languages may adapt more like biological organisms than previously thought and that the more common and popular the language, the simpler its construction to facilitate ...

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 ...

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 ...