The biolinguistic thesis states that language is a biological system internal to an individual of the species Homo sapiens sapiens for generating structured linguistic expressions over a potentially unbounded range; the design of the system is determined by a genetic endowment, external stimuli, and natural laws. With such an expansive scope, the thesis can be thoroughly explored only through interdisciplinary enterprises—the organization of which is the desideratum of the Cambridge Biolinguistics Initiative (CBI). We welcome you to participate in this most exciting endeavor. (Continue this manifesto.)

03 February 2011

Meeting Monday 7 February (5:00PM)

The Cambridge Biolinguistics Initiative is to reconvene on Monday 7 February in King’s College (F6) at 5:00PM.  Anthony Dickinson, professor of comparative psychology in the Cambridge Experimental Psychology Department, shall be presenting on spatial, temporal, and social cognition in western scrub jays (Dickinson 2006, Dickinson 2009); thereafter, we will discuss the implications of his work for theories of the nature and evolution of complex mental computation (nonlinguistic/linguistic), human uniqueness, inter alia (see Gallistel 2009).
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