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Language and Reality

Universal Grammars and Limbic Language

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Long before amphibians left the sea to take up life on land and in the air, fish had already learned to detect and analyze sounds made in the water. This was made possible by a structure located along both sides of the fish’s body, called the lateral line. The lateral line is very sensitive to vibrations including those made by sound. The mammalian auditory system, however, did not evolve from the lateral line but from a cluster of nerve cells located within the brain stem, the vestibular nucleus.1

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