Donald Loritz

How the Brain Evolved Language

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

How can an infinite number of sentences be generated from one human mind? How did language evolve in apes? In this book Donald Loritz addresses these and other fundamental and vexing questions about language, cognition, and the human brain. He starts by tracing how evolution and natural adaptation selected certain features of the brain to perform communication functions, then shows how those features developed into designs for human language. The result -- what Loritz calls an adaptive grammar -- gives a unified explanation of language in the brain and contradicts directly (and controversially) the theory of innateness proposed by, among others, Chomsky and Pinker.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 396g
• ISBN-13: 9780195151244
• ISBN-10: 0195151240
• Artikelnr.: 21694616

Inhaltsangabe

1: Lought and Thanguage
2: Jones' Theory of Evolution
3: The Communicating Cell
4: The Society of Brain
5: Adaptive Resonance
6: Speech and Hearing
7: Speech Perception
8: One, Two, Three
9: Romiet nad Juleo
10: Null Movement
11: Truth and Consequences
12: What if Language is Learned by Brain Cells
Notes
Bibliography
Index