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How the Brain Evolved Language

by Donald Loritz

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ISBN13: 9780195151244
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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.

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"This volume convinces me that its subject matter is an important area for cooperative interdisciplinary research efforts, which have enormous possibilities for future breakthroughs in fields such as speech and language pathology and communicative disorders."--Notes on Linguistics

"How the brain evolved language is written in an engagingly chatty style that aids comprehension of the highly technical matter that it covers. Anyone interested in how connectionism might be applied to diverse aspects of language, ranging from phonemic distinctiveness to the particle movement construction, will find the book very useful."--Book Notices

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Table of Contents

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 and Juleo


10. Null Movement


11. Truth and Consequences


12. What if Language is Learned by Brain Cells


Notes


Bibliography


Index


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ISBN:
9780195151244
Author:
Loritz, Donald
Publisher:
Oxford University Press, USA
Subject:
Epistemology
Subject:
Linguistics
Subject:
Cognitive Psychology
Subject:
Neurolinguistics
Subject:
Linguistics | Psycholinguistics
Subject:
Linguistics | Psycholinguistics and Neurolinguistics
Publication Date:
February 2002
Binding:
Paperback
Grade Level:
General/trade
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Y
Pages:
240
Dimensions:
888x646x52 74
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