This highly successful text has been substantially revised to take account of the considerable changes in Chomsky's recent ideas. The chapters on grammatical innateness, child language acquisition, and speech comprehension have been largely rewritten and new material and references throughout the book make it completely up-to-date with key developments in the field.
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Preface to the third edition; Preface to first edition Introduction The great automatic grammatizer Need anything be innate? Animals that try to talk Is language restricted to humans? Grandmama's teeth Is there biological evidence for innate language capacity? Predestinate grooves Is there a pre-ordained language 'programme'? The blueprint in the brain What grammatical information might conceivably be innate? Chattering children Are chattering children following 'rules' when they learn to speak? Puzzling it out Exactly how do children learn language? Celestial unintelligibility Why propose a transformational grammar? the white elephant problem Do we need a transformational grammar in order to speak? The case of the missing fingerprint How do we understand speech? The Cheshire cat's grin How do we plan and produce speech? Banker's clerk or hippopotamus? The future of psycholinguistics Notes and suggestions for further reading; References; Index
