Intended for undergraduate courses in introductory linguistics, cognitive science, psychology of language and philosophy of language, this text explains how an innate, genetically-encoded universal grammar provides the building blocks for all possible human languages.
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Pearson Education Limited
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Höhe: 227 mm
Breite: 147 mm
Dicke: 15 mm
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978-0-7450-0963-6 (9780745009636)
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Preface
THE FUNDAMENTAL ARGUMENTS
1. Finding our way into the problem: The nature/nurture issue
2. The argument for mental grammar
3. The argument for innate knowledge
THE ORGANIZATION OF MENTAL GRAMMAR
4. Overview
5. Phonological structure
6. Syntactic structure
7. American sign language
EVIDENCE FOR THE BIOLOGICAL BASIS OF LANGUAGE
8. How children learn language
9. Language acquisition in unusual circumstances I
10. Language acquisition in unusual circumstances II
11. Language and the brain
MENTAL CAPACITIES OTHER THAN THE LANGUAGE
12. The argument for the construction of experience
13. Music and vision
14. Language as a window on thought
15. Social organization
16. Further reading
17. Index
