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Re:Hand of Irulegi: ancient artefact could help trace origin... by the_af on Wednesday November 16, 2022 @03:13PM (#33629840)
> is one of those great tantalizing mysteries in linguistics, and in my view, one that suggests we might just be wired to make a language if we didn't already have one

Isn't this Chomsky's thesis about humans having an ingrained "grammar" (or proto-grammar, or grammar machinery) from birth?

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