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Linguistics --- Evolutie [Menselijke ] --- Evolution humaine --- Homme--Evolution --- Human evolution --- Mens--Evolutie --- Menselijke evolutie --- Evolution --- Language --- Language and languages --- Homme --- Langage et langues --- Origin --- Origines --- Biological Evolution. --- Language. --- 800 --- -#SBIB:309H518 --- #SBIB:309H514 --- Foreign languages --- Languages --- Anthropology --- Communication --- Ethnology --- Information theory --- Meaning (Psychology) --- Philology --- Evolution (Biology) --- Physical anthropology --- Evolutionary psychology --- Human beings --- Evolution, Biological --- Sociobiology --- Taalwetenschap. Taalkunde. Linguistiek --- Verbale communicatie: sociologie, antropologie, sociolinguistiek --- Linguistiek --- Human evolution. --- Origin. --- Evolution. --- 800 Taalwetenschap. Taalkunde. Linguistiek --- Biological Evolution --- #SBIB:309H518 --- Origin of languages --- Speech --- Language and languages - Origin. --- Dialect --- Dialects

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Communicatie --- Neurolinguïstiek --- Psycholinguïstiek --- Taal --- evolutie --- Communicatie. --- Neurolinguïstiek. --- Psycholinguïstiek. --- evolutie. --- Psycholinguistics --- Language and languages --- Human evolution

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How did humans acquire cognitive capacities far more powerful than any hunting-and-gathering primate needed to survive? Alfred Russel Wallace, co-founder with Darwin of evolutionary theory, set humans outside normal evolution. Darwin thought use of language might have shaped our sophisticated brains, but this remained an intriguing guess--until now. Combining state-of-the-art research with forty years of writing and thinking about language origins, Derek Bickerton convincingly resolves a crucial problem that biology and the cognitive sciences have systematically avoided. Before language or advanced cognition could be born, humans had to escape the prison of the here and now in which animal thinking and communication were both trapped. Then the brain's self-organization, triggered by words, assembled mechanisms that could link not only words but the concepts those words symbolized--a process that had to be under conscious control. Those mechanisms could be used equally for thinking and for talking, but the skeletal structures they produced were suboptimal for the hearer and had to be elaborated. Starting from humankind's remotest past, More than Nature Needs transcends nativist thesis and empiricist antithesis by presenting a revolutionary synthesis that shows specifically and in a principled way how and why the synthesis came about.

Language and languages. --- Human evolution --- Language acquisition --- Cognitive grammar. --- Psycholinguistics. --- Language, Psychology of --- Language and languages --- Psychology of language --- Speech --- Linguistics --- Psychology --- Thought and thinking --- Cognitive linguistics --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Psycholinguistics --- Acquisition of language --- Developmental linguistics --- Developmental psycholinguistics --- Language development in children --- Psycholinguistics, Developmental --- Interpersonal communication in children --- Evolution (Biology) --- Physical anthropology --- Evolutionary psychology --- Human beings --- Foreign languages --- Languages --- Anthropology --- Communication --- Ethnology --- Information theory --- Meaning (Psychology) --- Philology --- Psychological aspects. --- Psychological aspects --- Acquisition --- Origin --- Sociolinguistics

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Interdisciplinary perspectives on the evolutionary & biological roots of syntax, describing current research on syntax in fields ranging from linguistics to neurology.

Grammar, Comparative and general --- Biolinguistics --- Syntax --- Biology --- Linguistics --- LINGUISTICS & LANGUAGE/General --- Grammar --- Philology

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"A proper lingua ex machina would be a language machine capable of nesting phrases and clauses inside one another, complete with evolutionary pedigree. Such circuitry for structured thought might also facilitate creative shaping up of quality (figuring out what to do with the leftovers in the refrigerator), contingency planning, procedural games, logic, and even music. And enhancing structural thought might give intelligence a big boost. Solve the cerebral circuitry for syntax, and you might solve them all." "William Calvin and Derek Bickerton offer three ways for getting from ape behaviors to syntax. They focus on the transition from simple word association in short sentences (proto-language) to longer recursively structural sentences (requiring syntax). They are after invention via sidesteps (Darwinian conversions of function), not straight-line gradual improvements."--Jacket.

#PBIB:2001.2 --- Psycholinguistics --- Neurolinguistics --- Brain --- Language Development --- Neuropsychology --- Evolution --- physiology --- Chomsky, Noam, --- Darwin, Charles, --- Neuro-linguistics --- Biolinguistics --- Higher nervous activity --- Chomsky, Noam. --- Darwin, Charles, Robert --- Darwin, Charles --- Chomsky, Noam --- Chomsky, Abraham Noam‏ ‎ --- Neurolinguistics. --- Evolution. --- Brain - Evolution --- Brain - physiology --- Chomsky, Noam, - 1928 --- -Darwin, Charles, - 1809-1882