How the Brain Evolved Language

Donald Loritz (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

240 Seiten

2002
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-515124-4 (ISBN)

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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.

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

Erscheint lt. Verlag	14.3.2002
Zusatzinfo	numerous line drawings and figures
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	234 x 152 mm
Gewicht	340 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Allgemeine Psychologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Verhaltenstherapie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Humanbiologie
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Zoologie
ISBN-10	0-19-515124-0 / 0195151240
ISBN-13	978-0-19-515124-4 / 9780195151244
Zustand	Neuware