Patterns In The Mind

Language And Human Nature

Ray Jackendorf (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

256 Seiten

1995
Basic Books (Verlag)
978-0-465-05462-6 (ISBN)

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Why can humans alone speak and understand a language and what does this tell us about the rest of human abilities? Emphasizing the grammatical commonalities across languages, both spoken and signed, this study discusses the implications for language acquisition and loss.

What is it about the human mind that accounts for the fact that we can speak and understand a language? Why can't other creatures do the same? And what does this tell us about the rest of human abilities? Recent dramatic discoveries in linguistics and psychology provide intriguing answers to these age-old mysteries. In this fascinating book, Ray Jackendoff emphasizes the grammatical commonalities across languages, both spoken and signed, and discusses the implications for our understanding of language acquisition and loss.

Ray Jackendoff, linguist and theoretical psychologist, is professor of linguistics at Brandeis University. He is the author of several books, including Semantic Interpretation in Generative Grammar, Semantics and Cognition, Consciousness and the Computational Mind, and Semantic Structures.

The Fundamental Arguments * Finding our way into the problem: The Nature/Nurture Issue * The Argument for Mental Grammar * The Argument for Innate Knowledge The Organization Of Mental Grammar * Overview * Phonological Structure * Syntactic Structure * American Sign Language Evidence For The Biological Basis Of Language * How Children Learn Language * Language Acquisition in Unusual Circumstances I * Language Acquisition in Unusual Circumstances II * Language and the Brain Mental Capacities Other Than Language * The Argument for the Construction of Experience * Music and Vision * Language as a Window on Thought * Social Organization

Erscheint lt. Verlag	4.1.1995
Sprache	englisch
Maße	127 x 203 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Allgemeine Psychologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Verhaltenstherapie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
ISBN-10	0-465-05462-5 / 0465054625
ISBN-13	978-0-465-05462-6 / 9780465054626
Zustand	Neuware