ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Bioprogram

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Bioprogram is a noun meaning (cognitive linguistics) A hypothetical program in the brain, responsible for the construction of a language from words (and thus explaining the structural similarities of unrelated creoles).

Meaning

(cognitive linguistics) A hypothetical program in the brain, responsible for the construction of a language from words (and thus explaining the structural similarities of unrelated creoles).

Example Sentences

Bickerton swats down all these theories and explains how he arrived at his own solution, the language bioprogram hypothesis, which he elaborated in the book “Roots of Language” (1981).

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Related Words

Related dictionary entries include metaprogram, bracketer, prolog, metaprogramming, superprogram, gnisrap.

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