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  letter To the Beginning—And Back to the Future

  In response to “On Aspects of the Theory of Syntax”

  [short_description] Biolinguistics essentially stems from Noam Chomsky’s Aspects of the Theory of Syntax and is very much a child of its times, especially through the influence of Eric Lenneberg on Chomsky’s thinking.

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  letter Terminology and Toothbrushes

  In response to “Misused Terms in Linguistics”

  [short_description] It may be the case that linguists “would rather share each other’s toothbrush than each other’s terminology”—but so what? There are many situations that might prompt the sharing of toothbrushes…

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  letter Mindful of the Brain

  In response to “Kept in Mind”

  [short_description] Is Merge really in the brain or is it kept in the mind? Kleanthes Grohmann takes aim at Juan Uriagereka’s review of Language in Our Brain, by Angela Friederici.

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  letter Beneath the Surface

  In response to “The Recovery of Case”

  [short_description] At the core of case lies an abstract, phonetically null Case. The authors discuss how Jean-Roger Vergnaud’s proposal regarding abstract Case enhanced the explanatory power of Universal Grammar.

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