How the Brain Evolved Language (e-bog) af Loritz, Donald
Loritz, Donald (forfatter)

How the Brain Evolved Language e-bog

359,43 DKK (inkl. moms 449,29 DKK)
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 fe...
E-bog 359,43 DKK
Forfattere Loritz, Donald (forfatter)
Udgivet 28 februar 2002
Genrer Language acquisition
Sprog English
Format epub
Beskyttelse LCP
ISBN 9780190287986
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.