The Language Organ
Linguistics as Cognitive Physiology
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Product details:
- Publisher Cambridge University Press
- Date of Publication 19 September 2002
- ISBN 9780521809948
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages284 pages
- Size 229x152x19 mm
- Weight 590 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 2 b/w illus. 0
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Short description:
This book discusses the biological basis for a person's use of language.
MoreLong description:
The Language Organ treats human language as the manifestation of a faculty of the mind, a mental organ whose nature is determined by human biology and whose functional properties should be explored just as physiology explores the functional properties of physical organs. It surveys the nature of the language faculty in its various aspects: the systems of sounds, words, and syntax, the development of language in the child and historically, and what is known about its relation to the brain. It discusses the kinds of work that can be carried out in these areas that will contribute to an understanding of the human language organ. This book will appeal to students and researchers in linguistics, and is written to be accessible to colleagues in other disciplines dealing with language as well as to readers with an interest in general science and the nature of the human mind.
'A superb overview of the logic of language and its basis in the human mind.' Steven Pinker, MIT and author of The Language Instinct and Words and Rules
Table of Contents:
Introduction; 1. Studying the human language faculty; 2. Language as a mental organ; 3. Syntax; 4. Sound patterns to language; 5. Describing linguistic knowledge; 6. Phonetics and the I-linguistics of speech; 7. Morphology; 8. Language change; 9. 'Growing' a language; 10. The organic basis of language.
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