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Philip Lieberman argues forcibly that the widely influential theories of language's development, advanced by Chomskian linguists and cognitive scientists, especially those that postulate a single dedicated language "module," "organ," or "instinct," are inconsistent with principles and findings of evolutionary biology and neuroscience. He argues that the human neural system in its totality is the basis for the human language ability, for it requires the coordination of neural circuits that regulate motor control with memory and higher cognitive functions. Pointing out that articulate speech is a remarkably efficient means of conveying information, Lieberman also highlights the adaptive significance of the human tongue.
Fully human language involves the species-specific anatomy of speech, together with the neural capacity for thought and movement. In Lieberman's iconoclastic Darwinian view, the human language ability is the confluence of a succession of separate evolutionary developments, jury-rigged by natural selection to work together for an evolutionarily unique ability.
- Enquadernació Altres
- Autor/a Philip Lieberman
- ISBN13 9780674021846
- ISBN10 0674021843
- Pàgines 427
- Any Edició 2006
- Fecha de publicación 01/01/2006
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Toward an evolutionary biology of language
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- Philip Lieberman
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- Harvard University Press (2006)
- 9780674021846



