Can Mental Modularity Find Any Substitute?

To cite this article: CUI Yanying. (2021). Can Mental Modularity Find Any Substitute?. Asia-Pacific Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, 1(4), 063-071, DOI: 10.53789/j.1653-0465.2021.0104.009.p

To link this article: https://doi.org/10.53789/j.1653-0465.2021.0104.009.p

Abstract: Mental modularity claims particular importance in the study of the philosophy of language. Innatists think language, similar to other cognitive modules, is a separate module, which performs the particular functions and processes corresponding input and is not affected by other modules. The fact is that different modules interact with each other and affect each other. Language instinct does not hold. Hence mental modularity goes broke. Ultimately, a feasible approach, the complex system theory, is needed to understand language faculty and interpret “the black box”.

Keywords: complex system theory; mental modularity; grammar gene; language instinct

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