LINGUIST List 13.3265
Wed Dec 11 2002
Books: Linguistic Theories: Loritz
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Message 1: How the Brain Evolved Language: Loritz
Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 10:21:12 +0000
From: bartonm <bartonmoup-usa.org>
Subject: How the Brain Evolved Language: Loritz
Title: How the Brain Evolved Language
Publication Year: 2002
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Book URL: http://www.oup-usa.org/isbn/019511874X.html
Author: Donald Loritz, Georgetown University
Hardback: ISBN: 019511874X, Pages: 240 pp, Price: $ 45.00
Paperback: ISBN: 0195151240, Pages: 240 pp, Price: $ 19.95
Abstract:
How can an infinite number of sentences be generated from one human
mind? How did language evolve in apes? In this book Donald Loritz
addresses these and other fundamental and vexing questions about
language, cognition, and the human brain. He starts by tracing how
evolution and natural adaptation selected certain features of the
brain to perform communication functions, then shows how those
features developed into designs for human language. The result -- what
Loritz calls an adaptive grammar -- gives a unified explanation of
language in the brain and contradicts directly (and controversially)
the theory of innateness proposed by, among others, Chomsky and
Pinker.
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