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9780262531986

Lingua ex Machina : Reconciling Darwin and Chomsky with the Human Brain

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  • ISBN13:

    9780262531986

  • ISBN10:

    0262531984

  • Edition: Reprint
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2001-10-01
  • Publisher: Bradford Books
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Summary

William Calvin and Derek Bickerton suggest that other evolutionary developments, not directly related to language, allowed language to evolve in a way that eventually promoted a Chomskian syntax.

Author Biography

William H. Calvin is Affiliate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Washington, Seattle Derek Bickerton is Professor of Linguistics, Emeritus, at the University of Hawaii, Honolulu

Table of Contents

The Villa Serbelloni (WHC)
1(12)
What Are Words? (DB)
13(14)
Why Putting Words Together Isn't Easy (DB)
27(14)
Bigger than a Word, Smaller than a Sentence (DB)
41(14)
Language in the Brain (WHC)
55(12)
How Are Memories Stored? (WHC)
67(8)
Hexagonal Mosaics and Darwin Machines (WHC)
75(18)
A Common Code: The Brain's ``Esperanto'' Problem (WHC)
93(10)
Protolanguage Emerging (DB)
103(20)
Reciprocal Altruism as the Predecessor of Argument Structure (DB)
123(12)
Role Links for Words (DB)
135(16)
The Word Tree as a Secondary Use of Throwing's Segmented Movement Planner (WHC)
151(18)
Corticocortical Coherence Promotes a Many-Voiced Symphonic Sentence (WHC)
169(14)
The Pump and the Slingshot (WHC)
183(12)
Darwin and Chomsky Together at Last (DB)
195(18)
Acknowledgments 213(2)
Linguistics appendix (DB) 215(32)
Glossary 247(14)
Notes 261(20)
About the Authors 281(4)
Index 285

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