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Lenneberg's 1964 paper " The Capacity of Language Acquisition ," originally published in 1960, sets forth seminal arguments about the human-specific biological capacity for language, which were then being developed in his research and discussions with George A. Miller, Noam Chomsky, and others at Harvard and MIT, and popularized by Steven Pinker in his book, The Language Instinct.

He presents four arguments for biological innateness of psychological capacities, parallel to arguments in biology for the innateness of physical traits: