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  2. Language module - Wikipedia

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    The language module or language faculty is a hypothetical structure in the human brain which is thought to contain innate capacities for language, originally posited by Noam Chomsky. There is ongoing research into brain modularity in the fields of cognitive science and neuroscience , although the current idea is much weaker than what was ...

  3. Language - Wikipedia

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    Language is a structured system of communication that consists ... One definition sees language primarily as the mental faculty that allows humans to undertake ...

  4. Universal grammar - Wikipedia

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    Universal grammar (UG), in modern linguistics, is the theory of the innate biological component of the language faculty, usually credited to Noam Chomsky.The basic postulate of UG is that there are innate constraints on what the grammar of a possible human language could be.

  5. Linguistics - Wikipedia

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    Linguistics is the scientific study of language. [1] [2] [3] The areas of linguistic analysis are syntax (rules governing the structure of sentences), semantics (meaning), morphology (structure of words), phonetics (speech sounds and equivalent gestures in sign languages), phonology (the abstract sound system of a particular language, and analogous systems of sign languages), and pragmatics ...

  6. List of academic fields - Wikipedia

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    A scholar's discipline is commonly defined and recognized by a university faculty. ... Scriptural study and languages Biblical Hebrew; Biblical studies/Sacred Scripture;

  7. Language faculty - Wikipedia

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    Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Language_faculty&oldid=515542456"This page was last edited on 1 October 2012, at 23:27 (UTC). (UTC).

  8. Theory of language - Wikipedia

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    Theory of language is a topic in philosophy of language and theoretical linguistics. [1] It has the goal of answering the questions "What is language?"; [2] [3] ...

  9. Tübingen University Faculty of Modern Languages - Wikipedia

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    The Faculty of Modern Languages was the largest faculty of the university with about 8,000 students. It was located in the Neuphilologikum in the Wilhelmstraße area of the town. Most staff and students referred to both faculty and building by the building's unofficial name, Brechtbau, named after the German author and playwright Bertolt Brecht.