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Issue archive / nr 34
Auf der Spur der Sprachnatur. Vom Generativismus zur Biolinguistik
(On the trail of the nature of language. From generative linguistics to biolinguistics)

Authors: Jolanta Sękowska ORCID
Uniwersytet Marii Curie-Skłodowskiej (Lublin)
Keywords: biolinguistics modularity autonomy
Whole issue publication date:2025-10-24
Page range:18 (129-146)
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Abstract

The article attempts to answer the question of whether the extension of the previously generative biolinguistic research agenda to other disciplines and non-generative research trends in linguistics has prospects of success. The subject of the discussion is the hypothesis of the modularity of language/syntax on the one hand as a hypothetical-deductive assumption that can be tested in the sense of Popperian falsificationism. On the other hand, modularity is to be understood as a method for obtaining an answer to the fundamental question of the nature of language. In the article, a proposal is also put forward for solving this problem at the levels of neuronal, algorithmic and computational implementation, based on findings about the visual perception system.
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