Language Organ - Linguistics As Cognitive Physiology

Informationen zum Autor Stephen R. Anderson is Professor of Linguistics and Cognitive Science at Yale University. He is the author of The Organization of Phonology (1974), Phonology in the Twentieth Century (1985), and A-Morphous Morphology (Cambridge, 1992). David W. Lightfoot is Dean of the Graduate School, Georgetown University. He is the author of eight books, including The Development of Language (1999). Klappentext Challenging and original! this book discusses the biological basis for a person's use of language. Zusammenfassung The Language Organ treats human language as the manifestation of a faculty of the mind! a mental organ whose nature is determined by human biology and whose functional properties should be explored just as physiology explores the functional properties of physical organs. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. Studying the human language faculty; 2. Language as a mental organ; 3. Syntax; 4. Sound patterns to language; 5. Describing linguistic knowledge; 6. Phonetics and the I-linguistics of speech; 7. Morphology; 8. Language change; 9. 'Growing' a language; 10. The organic basis of language.

Product details

• Authors: Stephen R. Anderson, Stephen R. Lightfoot Anderson, David Lightfoot, David W. Lightfoot
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 19.09.2002
• EAN: 9780521007832
• ISBN: 978-0-521-00783-2
• No. of pages: 284
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics