Abstract
Abstract No Such Doubts appear to have dissuaded Noam Chomsky from his Cartesian view that human language is unique, although it must be said that recent research has rather neglected the pig. In his 1966 book Cartesian Linguistics, Chomsky wrote of the difference be tween human language and other forms of animal communication as follows: The unboundedness of human speech, as an expression of limitless thought, is an entirely different matter [from animal communication], because of the freedom from stimulus control and the appropriateness to new situations Modern studies of animal communication so far offer no counterevidence to the Cartesian assumption that human language is based on an entirely different principle.
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