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Language, from a Biological Point of View

2012-03-15 Language Arts & Disciplines
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Book Synopsis Language, from a Biological Point of View by : Cedric Boeckx

Download or read book Language, from a Biological Point of View written by Cedric Boeckx. This book was released on 2012-03-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present volume offers a collection of essays covering a broad range of areas where currently a rapprochement between linguistics and biology is actively being sought. Following a certain tradition, we call this attempt at a synthesis “biolinguistics.” The nine chapters (grouped into three parts: Language and Cognition, Language and the Brain, and Language and the Species) offer a comprehensive overview of issues at the forefront of biolinguistic research, such as language structure; language development; linguistic change and variation; language disorders and language processing; the cognitive, neural and genetic basis of linguistic knowledge; or the evolution of the Faculty of Language. Each contribution highlights exciting prospects for the field, but they also point to significant obstacles along the way. The main conclusion is that the age of theoretical exclusivity in Linguistics, much like the age of theoretical specificity, will have to end if interdisciplinarity is to reign and if biolinguistics is to flourish.

Language Comprehension

2012-12-06 Medical
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Genre : Medical
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Book Synopsis Language Comprehension by : Angela D. Friederici

Download or read book Language Comprehension written by Angela D. Friederici. This book was released on 2012-12-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second edition of the book on language comprehension in honor of Pim Levelt's sixtieth birthday has been released before he turns sixty-one. Some things move faster than the years of age. This seems to be especially true for advances in science. Therefore, the present edition entails changes in some of the chapters and incorporates an update of the current literature. I would like to thank all contributors for their cooperation in making a second edition possible such a short time after the completion of the first one. Angela D. Friederici Leipzig, November 23, 1998. Preface to the first edition Language comprehension and production is a uniquely human capability. We know little about the evolution of language as a human trait, possibly because our direct ancestors lived several million years ago. This fact certainly impedes the desirable advances in the biological basis of any theory of language evolution. Our knowledge about language as an existing species-specific biological sys tem, however, has advanced dramatically over the last two decades. New experi mental techniques have allowed the investigation of language and language use within the methodological framework of the natural sciences. The present book provides an overview of the experimental research in the area of language com prehension in particular.

The Oxford Handbook of Language Evolution

2012 Language Arts & Disciplines
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Release : 2012
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Book Synopsis The Oxford Handbook of Language Evolution by : Maggie Tallerman

Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Language Evolution written by Maggie Tallerman. This book was released on 2012. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leading scholars present critical accounts of every aspect of the field, including work in animal behaviour; anatomy, genetics and neurology; the prehistory of language; the development of our uniquely linguistic species; and language creation, transmission, and change.

Biolinguistics

2000 Language Arts & Disciplines
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Release : 2000
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Book Synopsis Biolinguistics by : Lyle Jenkins

Download or read book Biolinguistics written by Lyle Jenkins. This book was released on 2000. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Argues that biology plays a more central role in language acquisition than teaching or learning.

Language Comprehension: A Biological Perspective

2012-12-06 Medical
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Book Synopsis Language Comprehension: A Biological Perspective by : Angela D. Friederici

Download or read book Language Comprehension: A Biological Perspective written by Angela D. Friederici. This book was released on 2012-12-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Language comprehension and production is a uniquely human capability. We know little about the evolution of language as a human trait, possibly because our direct ancestors lived several million years ago. This fact certainly impedes the desirable advances in the biological basis of any theory of language evolution. Our knowledge about language as an existing species-specific biological sys tem, however, has advanced dramatically over the last two decades. New experi mental techniques have allowed the investigation of language and language use within the methodological framework of the natural sciences. The present book provides an overview of the experimental research in the area of language com prehension in particular. A biological perspective on language appears to be the common ground for all the contributors. Their research view is based on the conviction that knowledge about the language system can be gained on the basis of empirical research guided by modifiable theories. Each of the contributors reports and discusses the relevant work in hers or his specific field of research. Each of the nine chapters in this book focuses on a different level or aspect of language comprehension thereby covering the level of input processes and word recognition, the level of sentence processing as well as the level of text processing. Aspects of structural representation, and access to this representation are also discussed. One chapter finally attempts to describe the neurobiological basis of the different aspects of the language compre hension process.

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