Linguistics, as it is construed at Carleton, is the study of the human language faculty, surely the most central capacity of those which constitute human nature. The discipline is driven by two fundamental questions:
- First: what is it that people know that allows them to deftly use the stupendously complicated systems that underlie human languages?
- Second: how is this capacity acquired, both ontogenetically and phylogenetically?
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