How the Brain Evolved Language

Erscheinungsjahr 2002
ISBN: 978-0-19-515124-4
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 240 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 396 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Loritz, Donald

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Sprachpsychologie
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Neurobiologie, Verhaltensbiologie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Neurowissenschaften, Kognitionswissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Psycholinguistik, Neurolinguistik, Kognition

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- 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 nad Juleo

- 10: Null Movement

- 11: Truth and Consequences

- 12: What if Language is Learned by Brain Cells

- Notes

- Bibliography

- Index