Vyvyan Evans - "The evidence is in: there is no language instinct"

https://aeon.co/essays/the-evidence-is-in-there-is-no-language-instinct



linguist-anthropologist Daniel Everett has claimed that Pirahã - a language indigenous to the Amazonian rainforest - does not use recursion at all. This would be very strange indeed if grammar really was hard-wired into the human brain.