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The boundaries of Babel : the brain and the enigma of impossible languages / Andrea Moro ; translated from Italian by Ivano Caponigro and Daniel B. Kane.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Moro, Andrea.
- Series:
- Current studies in linguistics series ; 46.
- Current studies in linguistics ; 46
- Standardized Title:
- Confini di Babele. English
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Biolinguistics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (281 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This text is an exploration of what research at the intersection of contemporary theoretical linguistics and the cognitive neurosciences can reveal about the constraints on the apparently chaotic variation in human languages.
- Contents:
- Contents; Foreword; Translators' note; Preface; Acknowledgments; Prologue; 1 Hidden Texture; 2 Language in the Brain; 3 The Form of Grammar; Epilogue; References; Name Index; Subject Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [231]-243) and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 9780262280204
- 0262280205
- 9781435648784
- 1435648781
- OCLC:
- 233534447
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