New Ideas About An Old Puzzle
There's a familiar way of talking about language as a 'tool,' but of course that's just a metaphor. Literal tools made of rock can last for millennia as evidence of the skills of early humans. Not so with the metaphorical tool of language. Plumbing the origins…
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