How the Brain Evolved Language

Zusatztext I find the author's scholarship sound and intriguing ... this unusual and integrative approach makes a contribution. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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

Product details

• Authors: Donald Loritz, Donald (Professor of Linguistics Loritz, Loritz Donald
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.02.2002
• EAN: 9780195151244
• ISBN: 978-0-19-515124-4
• No. of pages: 238
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Neurowissenschaften, Kognitive Psychologie, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Neuroscience, PSYCHOLOGY / Cognitive Psychology & Cognition, Cognition & cognitive psychology, Neurosciences, Psycholinguistics, Cognition and cognitive psychology, Language acquisition, Psycholinguistics and cognitive linguistics