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How the Brain Evolved Language

By Donald Loritz

How the Brain Evolved Language Philosophy

How the Brain Evolved Language

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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 carts 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.
Product details
Edition:
illustrated
Number of Pages:
240
Release Date:
1999-10-07
Publication Date:
1999-08-01
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
019511874X
ISBN13:
9780195118742
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
546 g
Height:
157 cm
Width:
235 cm
Thickness:
19 cm
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