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The faculty of language: what's special about it?

Steven Pinker, Ray Jackendoff

Cognition · 2005 · 1.4K citations · 105 references

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A Generative Theory of Tonal Music

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How the Mind Works

Steven Pinker · Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · 1999 · 3.8K citations

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