Why Only Us: Language and Evolution (The MIT Press) - Hardcover

Berwick, Robert C.; Chomsky, Noam

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0262034247 ISBN 13: 9780262034241

Verlag: The MIT Press, 2015

Inhaltsangabe

We are born crying, but those cries signal the first stirring of language. Within a year or so, infants master the sound system of their language; a few years after that, they are engaging in conversations. This remarkable, species-specific ability to acquire any human language - "the language faculty" - aises important biological questions about language, including how it has evolved. This book by two distinguished scholars - a computer scientist and a Linguist - addresses the enduring question of the evolution of language. Robert Berwick and Noam Chomsky explain that until recently the evolutionary question could not be properly posed, because we did not have a clear idea of how to define "language" and therefore what it was that had evolved.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Robert C. Berwick is Professor of Computational Linguistics and Computer Science and Engineering, in the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems and the Institute for Data, Systems, and Society at MIT and the author of Computational Complexity and Natural Language and The Acquisition of Syntactic Knowledge, both published by the MIT Press.

Noam Chomsky is Institute Professor and Professor of Linguistics (Emeritus) at MIT and the author of many influential books on linguistics, including Aspects of the Theory of Syntax and The Minimalist Program, both published by the MIT Press.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: The MIT Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0262034247
• ISBN 13: 9780262034241
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 224
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