bioprogram

English

Etymology

From bio- +‎ program.

Noun

bioprogram (plural bioprograms)

1. (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).
   • 2008 March 30, Michael Erard, “Walking the Talk”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     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).

Translations

a hypothetical program in the brain, responsible for the construction of a language

• Portuguese: bioprograma m