bioprogram

English

Alternative forms

• bioprogramme (uncommon)

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 The New York Times Book Review‎^[1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 11 September 2025:

     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