Hagen Replies to Hirschfeld (2008)
Hirschfeld's (2008) thoughtful comments on my article on the bilingual brain are a valuable contribution to what I find to be an exciting and fruitful interdisciplinary investigation in evolutionary linguistics. I think his reply will help us flesh out both the biological and the environmental...
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| description | Hirschfeld's (2008) thoughtful comments on my article on the bilingual brain are a valuable contribution to what I find to be an exciting and fruitful interdisciplinary investigation in evolutionary linguistics. I think his reply will help us flesh out both the biological and the environmental forces that have led to the human endowment for language. Even so, Hirschfeld's conclusion — that the well-known difficulties which adults face in acquiring second languages are somehow proof of an environment in which early hominid bands frequently commingled - is at variance with virtually everything we know from the many disciplines that are now involved in the debate over the evolutionary origins of language. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-32fd2537b69f45749b12795fa554805f2022-12-22T00:56:03ZengSAGE PublishingEvolutionary Psychology1474-70492008-01-01610.1177/14747049080060012110.1177_147470490800600121Hagen Replies to Hirschfeld (2008)L. Kirk HagenHirschfeld's (2008) thoughtful comments on my article on the bilingual brain are a valuable contribution to what I find to be an exciting and fruitful interdisciplinary investigation in evolutionary linguistics. I think his reply will help us flesh out both the biological and the environmental forces that have led to the human endowment for language. Even so, Hirschfeld's conclusion — that the well-known difficulties which adults face in acquiring second languages are somehow proof of an environment in which early hominid bands frequently commingled - is at variance with virtually everything we know from the many disciplines that are now involved in the debate over the evolutionary origins of language.https://doi.org/10.1177/147470490800600121 |
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