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How the Brain Evolved Language (Hardcover, Reissue): Donald Loritz

How the Brain Evolved Language (Hardcover, Reissue)

Donald Loritz

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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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Imprint: Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin: United States
Release date: November 1999
First published: October 1999
Authors: Donald Loritz (Professor of Linguistics)
Dimensions: 242 x 164 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 236
Edition: Reissue
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-511874-2
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Semantics (meaning) > Lexicography
Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Cognition & cognitive psychology > General
Books > Science & Mathematics > Biology, life sciences > Life sciences: general issues > Neurosciences
LSN: 0-19-511874-X
Barcode: 9780195118742

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