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Widening Inborn Constraints for Language Ability: The Case for Autism

2021-04-19

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What does the way autistics bypass, learn, and eventually master language tell us about human linguistic ability? Here, we argue that non-social acquisition of language, in addition to representing a strong argument for nativist models of human language, may be encompassed within the human-specific orientation and mastery of complex embedded structures, of which language represents one realization. Non-social lang...

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Literature Corpus work: d3e97ba5-b597-5724-9743-38c2bceff17c
DOI: 10.20944/preprints202104.0472.v1

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