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How the brain evolved language / Donald Loritz.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Loritz, Donald, author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Language and languages--Origin.
- Language and languages.
- Biolinguistics.
- Grammar, Comparative and general.
- Brain--Evolution.
- Brain.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (238 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York ; Oxford University Press, 2023.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- How can an infinite number of sentences be generated from one human mind? How did language evolve in apes? Donald Loritz addresses these and other fundamental questions about language, cognition and the human brain.
- Contents:
- Contents; ONE: Lought and Thanguage; TWO: Jones's Theory of Evolution; THREE: The Communicating Cell; FOUR: The Society of Brain; FIVE: Adaptive Resonance; SIX: Speech and Hearing; SEVEN: Speech Perception; EIGHT: One, Two, Three; NINE: Romiet and Juleo; TEN: Null Movement; ELEVEN: Truth and Consequences; TWELVE: What If Language Is Learned by Brain Cells?; Notes; References; Index
- Notes:
- Previously issued in print: 1999.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-217) and index.
- Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-772171-0
- 1-280-47119-0
- 9786610471195
- 0-19-802796-6
- 0-585-36469-9
- OCLC:
- 476025116
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