How the Brain Evolved Language - Couverture souple

Loritz, Donald

 
9780195151244: How the Brain Evolved Language
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0195151240 ISBN 13 : 9780195151244
Editeur : Oxford University Press USA, 1999

Synopsis

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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Présentation de l'éditeur

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.

Revue de presse

Easy and pleasant to read (Stephanie Clarke, European Neurology, 2001)

Controversial, anti-establishment, readably swift, often funny, sometimes charming, and interdisciplinary in an area where there is a lot of earnest but still rudimentary bridge building going on. (Lise Menn, Department of Linguistics, University of Colorado)

I find the author's scholarship sound and intriguing ... this unusual and integrative approach makes a contribution. (Theresa Hernandez, Psychology, University of Colorado)

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Éditeur
Oxford University Press USA
Date d'édition
1999
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0195151240
ISBN 13 
9780195151244
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
240
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
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Autres éditions populaires du même titre

9780195118742: How the Brain Evolved Language

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  019511874X ISBN 13 :  9780195118742
Editeur : Oxford University Press Inc, 1999
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