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Introduction

When we transform thoughts into speech, we do something that no other animal ever achieves. Children acquire this ability effortlessly and without being taught, as though discovering how to walk. Damage to specific areas of the brain that are critical to language shows the profound selectivity of cerebral organization, underlining the exquisite biological structure of language and its computational features. Recent advances bring new insights into the neurogenetic basis of language, its development, and evolution, but also reveal deep holes in our understanding.

@article{hauser08biolinguisticAgendaSCIENCE,
  author={Marc D. Hauser and Thomas Bever},
  title={A Biolinguistic Agenda},
  journal={Science},
  year={2008},
  month={November},
  day={14},
  volume={322},
  number={5904},
  pages={1057-1059},
  doi={10.1126/science.1167437},
  url={http://www.isrl.uiuc.edu/~amag/langev/paper/hauser08biolinguisticAgendaSCIENCE.html}
}