How the Brain Evolved Language
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 14 March 2002
- ISBN 9780195151244
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages240 pages
- Size 152x234x15 mm
- Weight 340 g
- Language English
- Illustrations numerous line drawings and figures 0
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Short description:
How can the human brain generate an infinite number of sentences? Why can humans use language while other primates cannot? Using hard neurological, biological and mathematical evidence, Donald Loritz tries to answer some of our fundamental questions about the origins of language and explore what the answers might tell us about the nature of the human brain. His conclusions go against conventional wisdom in that they contradict theories of innateness proposed by Steven Pinker and others.
MoreLong description:
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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Table of Contents:
Lought and Thanguage
Jones' Theory of Evolution
The Communicating Cell
The Society of Brain
Adaptive Resonance
Speech and Hearing
Speech Perception
One, Two, Three
Romiet nad Juleo
Null Movement
Truth and Consequences
What if Language is Learned by Brain Cells
Notes
Bibliography
Index
