Piattelli-Palmarini

The study of language became a science when its ideas started to be submitted to experimental tests, and one of the first achievements of the new science has been described with great clarity by Massimo Piattelli- Palmarini ... 

The fact that new words can easily be incorporated into everyday language (and later into dictionaries) may give the impression that a language can accept any term, but this happens only because we are not aware of the great number of words that a language cannot accomodate and must leave out. We have already seen that terms like blinket and dax can be assimilated without difficulty, but there are also terms which are impossible to deal with, as Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini has pointedly shown. 

Piattelli-Palmarini, M. 1989. Evolution, selection and cognition. Cognition, 31, 1 —44. 

Piattelli-Palmarini, M. 1999. Universalita e arbitrarieta dellessico. Ee Scienze, quaderni, 108,14-18. 

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