UID:
edoccha_9961382488402883
Format:
1 online resource (305 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-317-48620-X
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1-315-70952-X
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1-317-48619-6
Content:
Biolinguistics is a highly interdisciplinary field that seeks the rapprochement between linguistics and biology. Linking theoretical linguistics, theoretical biology, genetics, neuroscience and cognitive psychology, this book offers a collection of chapters situating the enterprise conceptually, highlighting both the promises and challenges of the field, and chapters focusing on the challenges and prospects of taking interdisciplinarity seriously. It provides concrete illustrations of some of the cutting-edge research in biolinguistics and piques the interest of undergraduate students looking for a field to major in and inspires graduate students on possible research directions. It is also meant to show to specialists in adjacent fields how a particular strand of theoretical linguistics relates to their concerns, and in so doing, the book intends to foster collaboration across disciplines
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Notes on contributors; 1 Introduction: the biolinguistic program: a new beginning; PART I Computational issues; 2 Feature-equilibria in syntax; 3 On the primitive operations of syntax; 4 Case and predicate-argument relations; PART II Development, processing and variations; 5 Structure dependence in child English: new evidence; 6 Make a good prediction or get ready for a locality penalty: maybe it's coming late; 7 Some things to learn from the intersection between language and working memory
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8 Eliminating parameters from the narrow syntax: rule ordering variation by third-factor underspecificationPART III Conceptual and methodological foundations; 9 On certain fallacies in evolutionary linguistics and how one can eliminate them; 10 Biological pluralism in service of biolinguistics; 11 On the current status of biolinguistics as a biological science; PART IV Evolutionary considerations; 12 Proposing the hypothesis of an earlier emergence of the human language faculty; 13 Two aspects of syntactic evolution; PART V Topics in neurobiology; 14 Syntax in the brain
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15 The central role of the thalamus in language and cognition16 A biolinguistic approach to language disorders: towards a paradigm shift in clinical linguistics; Index
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-138-89172-X
Language:
English
DOI:
10.4324/9781315709529
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