Patterns In The Mind: Language And Human Nature - Softcover

Jackendoff, Ray S

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0465054625 ISBN 13: 9780465054626

Verlag: Basic Books, 1995

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What is it about the human mind that accounts for the fact that we can speak and understand a language? Why can't other creatures do the same? And what does this tell us about the rest of human abilities? Recent dramatic discoveries in linguistics and psychology provide intriguing answers to these age-old mysteries. In this fascinating book, Ray Jackendoff emphasizes the grammatical commonalities across languages, both spoken and signed, and discusses the implications for our understanding of language acquisition and loss.

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Ray Jackendoff, linguist and theoretical psychologist, is professor of linguistics at Brandeis University. He is the author of several books, including Semantic Interpretation in Generative Grammar, Semantics and Cognition, Consciousness and the Computational Mind, and Semantic Structures.

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What is it about the human mind that accounts for the fact that we can all speak and understand a language? Why can't other creatures do the same? And what does this tell us about the rest of a human abilities? Recent dramatic discoveries in linguistics and psychology provide intriguing answers to these age-old mysteries. In this fascinating book, Ray Jackendoff emphasizes the grammatical commonalities across languages, both spoken and signed, and discusses the implications for our understanding of language acquisition and loss.

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• Verlag: Basic Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1995
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0465054625
• ISBN 13: 9780465054626
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 257
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