Originally published: 2009.

Opening remarks / Noam chomsky -- The nature of merge : consequences for language, mind, and biology / Cedric Boeckx -- The foundational abstractions / C.R. Gallistel -- Evolingo : the nature of the language faculty / Marc D. Hauser -- Pointers to a biology of language? / Gabriel Dover -- Language in an epigenetic framework / Donata Vercelli -- Brain wiring optimization and non-genomic nativism / Christopher Cherniak -- Hierarchy, merge, and truth / Wolfram Hinzen -- Two interfaces / James Higginbotham -- Movement and concepts of locality / Luigi Rizzi -- Uninterpretable features in syntactic evolution / Juan Uriagereka -- The brain differentiates hierarchical and probabilistic grammars Angela D. Friederici -- Round table : language universals : yesterday, today, and tomorrow / Cedric Boeckx, Janet Dean Fodor, Lila gleitman, Luigi Rizzi -- IOnnate learning and beyond / Rochel Gelman -- The learned component of language learning / Lila Gleitman -- Syntax acquisition : an evaluation measure after all? / Janet Dean Fodor -- Remarks on the individual basis for linguistic structures / Thomas G. Bever -- The illusion of biological variation : a minimalist approach to the mind / Marc D. Hauser -- What is there in universal grammar? : on innate and specific aspects of language / Itziar Laka -- Individual differences in foreign sound perception : perceptual or linguistic difficulties? / Núria Sebastián-Gallés -- Language and the brain / Angela D. Friederici -- Conclusion / Noam Chomsky.