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Lingua ex machina : reconciling Darwin and Chomsky with the human brain / William H. Calvin, Derek Bickerton.
Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, 2001Edition: First MIT Press paperback editionDescription: 298 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780262531986
- 0262531984
- QP399 .C35 2001
Contents:
Summary: This book presents an engaging challenge to those who view the human capacity for language as a winner-take-all war between Chomsky and Darwin.
The Villa Serbelloni --
What are words? --
Why putting words together isn't easy --
Bigger than a word, smaller than a sentence --
Language in the brain --
How are memories stored? --
Hexagonal mosaics and Darwin machines --
A common code: the brain's "Esperanto" problem --
Protolanguage emerging --
Reciprocal altruism as the predecessor of argument structure --
Role links for words --
The word tree as a secondary use of throwing's segmented movement planner --
Corticocortical coherence promotes a many-voiced symphonic sentence --
The pump and the slingshot --
Darwin and Chomsky together at last.
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American University in Dubai | American University in Dubai | Non-fiction | Main Collection | QP 399 .C35 2001 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 5164421 |
"A Bradford book."
Originally published: 2000.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-280) and index.
The Villa Serbelloni --
What are words? --
Why putting words together isn't easy --
Bigger than a word, smaller than a sentence --
Language in the brain --
How are memories stored? --
Hexagonal mosaics and Darwin machines --
A common code: the brain's "Esperanto" problem --
Protolanguage emerging --
Reciprocal altruism as the predecessor of argument structure --
Role links for words --
The word tree as a secondary use of throwing's segmented movement planner --
Corticocortical coherence promotes a many-voiced symphonic sentence --
The pump and the slingshot --
Darwin and Chomsky together at last.
This book presents an engaging challenge to those who view the human capacity for language as a winner-take-all war between Chomsky and Darwin.
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