The Biology Of Language
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Author | : Philip Lieberman |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 398 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780674074132 |
This book synthesizes much of the exciting recent research in the biology of language. Drawing on data from anatomy, neurophysiology, physiology, and behavioral biology, Philip Lieberman develops a new approach to the puzzle of language, arguing that it is the result of many evolutionary compromises. Within his discussion, Lieberman skillfully addresses matters as various as the theory of neoteny (which he refutes), the mating calls of bullfrogs, ape language, dyslexia, and computer-implemented models of the brain.
Author | : Stanis?aw Puppel |
Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | : 311 |
Release | : 1995-01-01 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 902722143X |
This volume brings together 15 papers on the evolution and origin of language. The authors approach the subject from various angles, exploring biological, cultural, psychological and linguistic factors. A wide variety of topics is discussed, such as animal communication, language acquisition, the essentialist-evolutionist debate, and genetic classification.
Author | : Lyle Jenkins |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780521003919 |
Argues that biology plays a more central role in language acquisition than teaching or learning.
Author | : Maggie Tallerman |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 790 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0199541116 |
Leading scholars present critical accounts of every aspect of the field, including work in animal behaviour; anatomy, genetics and neurology; the prehistory of language; the development of our uniquely linguistic species; and language creation, transmission, and change.
Author | : George Kingsley Zipf |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 2013-11-05 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 1136310533 |
This is Volume XXI in a series of twenty-one on the Cognitive Psychology. Orignally published in 1936, this is a study on the introduction to Dynamic Philology.
Author | : Prakash Mondal |
Publisher | : Palgrave Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2020-08-14 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9783030237172 |
This book examines the relationship between human language and biology in order to determine whether the biological foundations of language can offer deep insights into the nature and form of language and linguistic cognition. Challenging the assumption in biolinguistics and neurolinguistics that natural language and linguistic cognition can be reconciled with neurobiology, the author argues that reducing representation to cognitive systems and cognitive systems to neural populations is reductive, leading to inferences about the cognitive basis of linguistic performance based on assuming (false) dependencies. Instead, he finds that biological implementations of cognitive rather than the biological structures themselves, are the driver behind linguistic structures. In particular, this book argues that the biological roots of language are useful only for an understanding of the emergence of linguistic capacity as a whole, but ultimately irrelevant to understanding the character of language. Offering an antidote to the current thinking embracing ‘biologism’ in linguistic sciences, it will be of interest to readers in linguistics, the cognitive and brain sciences, and the points at which these disciplines converge with the computer sciences.
Author | : Dr. Peter B. Denes |
Publisher | : Pickle Partners Publishing |
Total Pages | : 210 |
Release | : 2016-08-09 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1787200779 |
Originally published in 1963, The Speech Chain has been regarded as the classic, easy-to-read introduction to the fundamentals and complexities of speech communication. It provides a foundation for understanding the essential aspects of linguistics, acoustics and anatomy, and explores research and development into digital processing of speech and the use of computers for the generation of artificial speech and speech recognition. This interdisciplinary account will prove invaluable to students with little or no previous exposure to the study of language.
Author | : Cedric Boeckx |
Publisher | : Language Science Press |
Total Pages | : 76 |
Release | : |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 3961103283 |
This essay reflects on the fact that as we learn more about the biological underpinnings of our language faculty, the dominant evolutionary narrative coming out of the linguistic tradition most explicitly oriented towards biology ("biolinguistics") appears increasingly implausible. This text offers ways of opening up linguistic inquiry and fostering interdisciplinarity, taking advantage of new opportunities to provide quantitative, testable hypotheses concerning the complex evolutionary path that led to the modern human language faculty. The essay is structured around three main themes: (i) renewed appreciation for the comparative method applied to cognitive questions, leading to the identification of elementary but fundamental abstractions in non-linguistic species relevant to language; (ii) awareness of the conceptual gaps between disciplines, and the need to carefully link genotype and phenotype without bypassing any "intermediate" levels of description (certainly not the brain); and (iii) adoption of a "philosophical" outlook that puts the complexity of biological entities front and center.
Author | : Gregory Hickok |
Publisher | : Academic Press |
Total Pages | : 1188 |
Release | : 2015-08-15 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 0124078621 |
Neurobiology of Language explores the study of language, a field that has seen tremendous progress in the last two decades. Key to this progress is the accelerating trend toward integration of neurobiological approaches with the more established understanding of language within cognitive psychology, computer science, and linguistics. This volume serves as the definitive reference on the neurobiology of language, bringing these various advances together into a single volume of 100 concise entries. The organization includes sections on the field's major subfields, with each section covering both empirical data and theoretical perspectives. "Foundational" neurobiological coverage is also provided, including neuroanatomy, neurophysiology, genetics, linguistic, and psycholinguistic data, and models. - Foundational reference for the current state of the field of the neurobiology of language - Enables brain and language researchers and students to remain up-to-date in this fast-moving field that crosses many disciplinary and subdisciplinary boundaries - Provides an accessible entry point for other scientists interested in the area, but not actively working in it – e.g., speech therapists, neurologists, and cognitive psychologists - Chapters authored by world leaders in the field – the broadest, most expert coverage available
Author | : Steven Pinker |
Publisher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 578 |
Release | : 2010-12-14 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0062032526 |
"A brilliant, witty, and altogether satisfying book." — New York Times Book Review The classic work on the development of human language by the world’s leading expert on language and the mind In The Language Instinct, the world's expert on language and mind lucidly explains everything you always wanted to know about language: how it works, how children learn it, how it changes, how the brain computes it, and how it evolved. With deft use of examples of humor and wordplay, Steven Pinker weaves our vast knowledge of language into a compelling story: language is a human instinct, wired into our brains by evolution. The Language Instinct received the William James Book Prize from the American Psychological Association and the Public Interest Award from the Linguistics Society of America. This edition includes an update on advances in the science of language since The Language Instinct was first published.