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Biological explanation of embedded clauses

What is it about?

Our capacity for language is biological. Linguistic innovation comes about through our capacity to alter the environment of parts of speech.

Why is it important?

It contrasts with 'big bang' theories about the origins of the linguistic brain. In evolutionary biology, these "bangs" are really successions of increasing significant pops that take place over tens of thousands of years in interacting populations of brains, not in sudden universal mutations. They are brought about through human- induced migrations of elements of speech.

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