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Human language and our reptilian brain : the subcortical bases of speech, syntax, and thought
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ISBN: 0674002261 Year: 2000 Volume: *1 Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. London Harvard University Press

Biolinguistics
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ISBN: 0521652332 0521003911 1107117364 0511009941 0511172354 0511150830 0511324731 0511605765 1280432527 0511048211 9780511009945 0511032986 9780511032981 9780511605765 9781280432521 9780511150838 9780511048210 9780521652339 9780521003919 9781107117365 9780511172359 9780511324734 Year: 2000 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press

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This book investigates the nature of human language and its importance for the study of the mind. In particular, it examines current work on the biology of language. Lyle Jenkins reviews the evidence that language is best characterized by a generative grammar of the kind introduced by Noam Chomsky in the 1950s and developed in various directions since that time. He then discusses research into the development of language which tries to capture both the underlying universality of human language, as well as the diversity found in individual languages (Universal Grammar). Finally, he discusses a variety of approaches to language design and the evolution of language. An important theme is the integration of biolinguistics into the natural sciences - the 'unification problem'. Jenkins also answers criticisms of the biolinguistic approach from a number of other perspectives, including evolutionary psychology, cognitive science, connectionism and ape language research, among others.

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