Humans aren't alone in being able to grasp early grammatical concepts, say biologists who found songbirds can as well. European starlings were trained to tell the difference between a regular ...

Noam Chomsky, that noted linguist, has theorized that one of the main hallmarks that distinguishes human language from the squeaks and rumblings of birds and beasts is the ability to use something ...

The cognitive linguist Michael Tomasello recently proclaimed that "universal grammar is dead." According to the most prominent linguist of recent times, Noam Chomsky, universal grammar is the inborn ...