bioprogram

noun

Etymology

From bio- + program.

  1. derived from πρόγραμμα
  2. derived from programma
  3. borrowed from programme
  4. prefixed as bioprogram — “bio + program

Definitions

  1. A hypothetical program in the brain, responsible for the construction of a language from…

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

    • 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).

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for bioprogram. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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