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Pluripotentiality, epigenesis, and language acquisition

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 February 2010

Bob Jacobs
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Laboratory of Quantitative Neuromorphology, The Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO 80903. bjacobs@cc.colorado.edu
Lori Larsen
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Laboratory of Quantitative Neuromorphology, The Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO 80903. bjacobs@cc.colorado.edu

Abstract

Müller provides a valuable synthesis of neurobiological evidence on the epigenetic development of neural structures involved in language acquisition. The pluripotentiality of developing neural tissue crucially constrains linguistic/cognitive theorizing about supposedly innate neural mechanisms and contributes significantly to our understanding of experience–dependent processes involved in language acquisition. Without this understanding, any proposed explanation of language acquisition is suspect.

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1996

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