Language and the Brain

A commonly-held view is that the human brain has evolved mechanisms that enable it to deal with language – and hence children demonstrate remarkable facilty for learning language at very young ages. But now comes a new proposal that states, in effect, that languages have adapted to the capabilities of the brain. It’s intriguing. More on this can be found over at the Babel’s Dawn blog, complete with a link to a 62 page draft of the paper laying out the proposal. Gulp.