How the brain evolved language /
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| Author / Creator: | Loritz, Donald, 1947- |
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| Imprint: | New York : Oxford University Press, 1999. |
| Description: | 1 online resource (227 pages) : illustrations |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11200645 |
| Summary: | 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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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (227 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-217) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780195118742 019511874X 9780195151244 0195151240 0585364699 9780585364698 9780198027966 0198027966 |