Kuhl, Patricia K. “A New View of Language Acquisition.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 97, no. 22 (2000): 11850–57. Recommended for its powerful insights into how the human patterning instinct develops in prelinguistic infants. Jackendoff, Ray. “Possible Stages in the Evolution of the Language Capacity.” Trends in Cognitive Sciences 3, no. 7 (1999): 272–79. Recommended for its coherent model of language evolution that transcends the conventional debate on the topic.
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