7 Some things to learn from the intersection between
language and working memory 103
GONZALO CASTILLO
8 Eliminating parameters from the narrow
syntax: rule ordering variation by third-factor
underspecifi cation 128
MIKI OBATA AND SAMUEL EPSTEIN
PART III
Conceptual and methodological foundations 139
9 On certain fallacies in evolutionary linguistics
and how one can eliminate them 141
KOJI FUJITA
10 Biological pluralism in service of biolinguistics 153
PEDRO TIAGO MARTINS, EVELINA LEIVADA, ANTONIO
BENÍTEZ-BURRACO AND CEDRIC BOECKX
11 On the current status of biolinguistics as a
biological science 170
MASANOBU UEDA
PART IV
Evolutionary considerations 187
12 Proposing the hypothesis of an earlier emergence
of the human language faculty 189
MASAYUKI IKE-UCHI
13 Two aspects of syntactic evolution 198
MICHIO HOSAKA
PART V
Topics in neurobiology 215
14 Syntax in the brain 217
NORIAKI YUSA
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