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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      November 2009
      March 2000
      ISBN:
      9780511605765
      9780521652339
      9780521003919
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511605765
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.564kg, 280 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.452kg, 280 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Life Sciences, Psycholinguistics and Neurolinguistics, Neurosciences, Language and Linguistics
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    Subjects:
    Life Sciences, Psycholinguistics and Neurolinguistics, Neurosciences, Language and Linguistics
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    This book investigates the nature of human language and its importance for the study of the mind. In particular, it examines current work on the biology of language. Lyle Jenkins reviews the evidence that language is best characterized by a generative grammar of the kind introduced by Noam Chomsky in the 1950s and developed in various directions since that time. He then discusses research into the development of language which tries to capture both the underlying universality of human language, as well as the diversity found in individual languages (Universal Grammar). Finally, he discusses a variety of approaches to language design and the evolution of language. An important theme is the integration of biolinguistics into the natural sciences - the 'unification problem'. Jenkins also answers criticisms of the biolinguistic approach from a number of other perspectives, including evolutionary psychology, cognitive science, connectionism and ape language research, among others.

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    ‘Jenkin’s book is useful for the range of topics it discusses, and for the historical dimension that it provides on biolinguistic exploration as seen from a Chomskyan viewpoint.’

    Andrew Carstairs-McCarthy Source: Diachronica

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