TY - BOOK ID - 923281 TI - Lingua ex machina : reconciling Darwin and Chomsky with the human brain AU - Calvin, William H. AU - Bickerton, Derek. PY - 2000 SN - 0262032732 0262531984 0262316137 9780262316132 9780262032735 9780262531986 PB - Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, DB - UniCat KW - #PBIB:2001.2 KW - Psycholinguistics KW - Neurolinguistics KW - Brain KW - Language Development KW - Neuropsychology KW - Evolution KW - physiology KW - Chomsky, Noam, KW - Darwin, Charles, KW - Neuro-linguistics KW - Biolinguistics KW - Higher nervous activity KW - Chomsky, Noam. KW - Darwin, Charles, Robert KW - Darwin, Charles KW - Chomsky, Noam KW - Chomsky, Abraham Noam‏ ‎ KW - Neurolinguistics. KW - Evolution. KW - Brain - Evolution KW - Brain - physiology KW - Chomsky, Noam, - 1928 KW - -Darwin, Charles, - 1809-1882 UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:923281 AB - "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. ER -