LINGUIST List 15.463

Wed Feb 4 2004

Media: Edge: Language, Biology, and the Mind

Editor for this issue: Steve Moran <stevelinguistlist.org>

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1. Grzegorz Chrupala, Edge: LANGUAGE, BIOLOGY, AND THE MIND.

A talk with psychologist Gary Marcus.

He discusses how recent advances in understanding the interplay of
genes and environement in development can shed light on the nature of
the human language faculty and its relation to cognitive systems
present in non-human primates.

Transcript and Quicktime video:
http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/marcus03/marcus_index.html