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The Boundaries of Babel: The Brain and the Enigma of Impossible Languages
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Moro, Andrea

This text is an exploration of what research at the intersection of contemporary theoretical linguistics and the cognitive neurosciences can reveal about the constraints on the apparently chaotic variation in human languages.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

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9780262280204
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1 online resource (xvi, 257 pages) :illustrations.
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Image, language, brain : papers from the First Mind Articulation Project Symp…
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Mind Articulation Project Symposium.Marantz, Alec.Miyashita, Y.O\'Neil, Wayne A.

Revised papers from a symposium held November 16-17, 1998 in Tokyo.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

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9780262303040
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1 online resource (x, 272 pages) : illustrations
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Biological foundations and origin of syntax
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Bickerton, DerekSzathmáry, Eörs

Syntax is arguably the most human-specific aspect of language. Despite the proto-linguistic capacities of some animals, syntax appears to be the last major evolutionary transition in humans that has some genetic basis. Yet what are the elements to a scenario that can explain such a transition? In this book, experts from linguistics, neurology and neurobiology, cognitive psychology, ecology and …

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9780262258586
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1 online resource (xviii, 471 pages) :illustrations (some color).
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The primacy of grammar
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Mukherji, Nirmalangshu.

The contemporary discipline of biolinguistics is beginning to have the feel of scientific inquiry. Biolinguistics—especially the work of Noam Chomsky—suggests that the design of language may be “perfect”: language is an optimal solution to conditions of sound and meaning. What is the scope of this inquiry? Which aspect of nature does this science investigate? What is its relation to the…

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9780262280310
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1 online resource (xix, 278 pages) :illustrations, music
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Why only us language and evolution
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Chomsky, Noam,Berwick, Robert C.,

"We are born crying, but those cries signal the first stirring of language. Within a year or so, infants master the sound system of their language; a few years after that, they are engaging in conversations. This remarkable, species-specific ability to acquire any human language--'the language faculty'--raises important biological questions about language, including how it has evolved. This boo…

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9780262333351
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1 online resource (215 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates) :illustrations (some color)
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