V svoji knjigi, "Language - the cultural tool", Daniel L. Everett nasprotuje prevladujoči lingvistični paradigmi o prirojenem govornem aparatu (LAD). Pravi, da jezik nastane v interakciji treh sistemov - spoznanja, kuture in komunikacije.

How humans learn language is much more easily accounted for by psychologists than the Chomskyans claim. Surely our brains and bodies have evolved to optimize our language abilities. However, no one supposes that our skill on bikes indicates a “bicycling organ.” Rather, language piggy­backs on vocal apparatuses and regions of the brain that evolved for other purposes in our animal forebears. Everett makes a case for language having arisen as a combination of three elements: “Cognition + Culture + Communication.”

Still, “Language” is a useful study of a burgeoning theory compatible with Darwinism, anthropology, psychology and philosophy — an interdisciplinary orientation the Chomskyans have largely spurned. One need not subscribe to the idea of grammar as a reflection of “values” to enjoy Everett’s perspective on the future of linguistic science.