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Third factor explanations and Universal Grammar

The biolinguistic approach to generative grammar has in recent years emphasized the relevance of principles that are not specific to the Faculty of Language. These are taken to work together with both genetic endowment and experience to determine relevant languages. Chomsky (2005) labels these non-language-specific principles ‘third factors’, and argues that computational efficiency is a […]
By Terje Lohndal, Juan Uriagereka
January 1, 2017