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Language and mind / Noam Chomsky.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Chomsky, Noam, author.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Psycholinguistics.
Thought and thinking.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (xviii, 190 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
Edition:
Third edition.
Other Title:
Language & Mind
Place of Publication:
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2006.
Language Note:
English
Summary:
This is the third edition of Chomsky's outstanding collection of essays on language and mind, first published in 2006. The first six chapters, originally published in the 1960s, made a groundbreaking contribution to linguistic theory. This edition complements them with an additional chapter and a new preface, bringing Chomsky's influential approach into the twenty-first century. Chapters 1-6 present Chomsky's early work on the nature and acquisition of language as a genetically endowed, biological system (Universal Grammar), through the rules and principles of which we acquire an internalized knowledge (I-language). Over the past fifty years, this framework has sparked an explosion of inquiry into a wide range of languages, and has yielded some major theoretical questions. The final chapter revisits the key issues, reviewing the 'biolinguistic' approach that has guided Chomsky's work from its origins to the present day, and raising some novel and exciting challenges for the study of language and mind.
Contents:
Linguistic contributions to the study of mind: past
Linguistic contributions to the study of mind: present
Linguistic contributions to the study of mind: future
Form and meaning in natural languages
The formal nature of language
Linguistics and philosophy
Biolinguistics and the human capacity.
Notes:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
0-511-13664-1
1-107-15609-2
1-107-38623-3
1-280-43197-0
0-511-79122-4
0-511-18380-1
0-511-20193-1
0-511-13774-5
0-511-31205-9
0-511-13557-2
OCLC:
123355326
Publisher Number:
2027/heb08422 hdl

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