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Introduction

Language is an apparent miracle. Children master it with exceptional ease, while simultaneously struggling to walk, hold a fork, and recognize that others have thoughts and emotions that differ from their own. They perform, with near perfection, mental computation and generalizations about language which are virtually impossible for state of the art computers. They grasp the tree-like phrase structure of language even though their parents have never taught them, and most probably couldn't even if they wanted to (such properties of language are not the stuff of school education). And children babble on about the present, past, and future, creating imaginary worlds that no one but they can see.

@article{komarova01buildingThe,
  author={Natalia L. Komarova and Marc D. Hauser},
  title={Building the tower of babble},
  journal={Trends in Cognitive Sciences},
  year={2001},
  volume={5},
  number={10},
  pages={412-413},
  note={This is a meeting report of The Language Learning and Evolution Workshop held at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ, USA, 17-19 May 2001.},
  doi={10.1016/S1364-6613(00)01768-X},
  url={http://www.isrl.uiuc.edu/~amag/langev/paper/komarova01buildingThe.html}
}

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