Language in our brain : the origins of a uniquely human capacity / Angela D. Friederici ; foreword by Noam Chomsky.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Friederici, Angela D., author.

Chomsky, Noam, author of foreword.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cognitive grammar.

Cognitive learning.

Cognitive science.

Brain--Localization of functions.

Brain.

Brain--Language.

Brain--Physiology.

Brain--Locations of functionality.

Psycholinguistics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : The MIT Press, [2017]

System Details:

text file

Summary:

A comprehensive account of the neurobiological basis of language, arguing that species-specific brain differences may be at the root of the human capacity for language.

Contents:

Part I 13

1 Language Functions in the Brain: From Auditory Input to Sentence Comprehension 15

1.1 A Cognitive Model of Auditory Language Comprehension 15

1.2 Acoustic-Phonological Processes 20

1.3 From Word Form to Syntactic and Lexical-Semantic Information 27

1.4 Initial Phrase Structure Building 32

1.5 Syntactic Relations during Sentence Processing 43

1.6 Processing Semantic Relations 56

1.7 Thematic Role Assignment: Semantic and Syntactic Features 62

1.8 Processing Prosodic Information 71

1.9 Functional Neuroanatomy of Language Comprehension 82

2 Excursions 85

2.1 Language Comprehension and Production: A Common Knowledge Base of Language 85

2.2 Language Comprehension and Communication: Beyond the Core Language System 95

Part II 101

3 The Structural Language Network 103

3.1 The Neuroanatomical Pathways of Language 103

3.2 Pathways in the Right Hemisphere and Cross-Hemispheric Pathways 112

3.3 The Neuroanatomical Pathway Model of Language: Syntactic and Semantic Networks 115

4 The Functional Language Network 121

4.1 The Neuroreceptorarchitectonic Basis of the Language Network 121

4.2 Functional Connectivity and Cortical Oscillations 125

4.3 The Neural Language Circuit 134

Part III 143

5 The Brain's Critical Period for Language Acquisition 145

5.1 Neurophysiology of Second Language Learning 146

5.2 Critical and Sensitive Periods of Learning: Facts and Speculations 155

5.3 Universality of the Neural Language Network 157

6 Ontogeny of the Neural Language Network 163

6.1 Language in the First Three Years of Life 165

6.2 Language beyond Age 3 183

6.3 Structural and Functional Connectivity during Development 191

6.4 The Ontogeny of the Language Network: A Model 196

Part IV 201

7 Evolution of Language 203

7.1 Theories of Language Evolution 203

7.2 Processing Structured Sequences in Songbirds 205

7.3 Comparing Monkeys and Humans 207

7.4 Paleoanthropological Considerations of Brain Development 219

8 The Neural Basis of Language 221

8.1 An Integrative View of the Language Network 223

8.2 Epilogue: Homo Loquens-More than Just Words 231.

Notes:

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

9780262342964

0262342960

OCLC:

1011673695

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access