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.

"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

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