How can an infinite number of sentences be generated from one human mind? How did language evolve in apes? In this book Donald Loritz addresses these and other fundamental and vexing questions about language, cognition, and the human brain. He starts by tracing how evolution and natural adaptation selected certain features of the brain to perform communication functions, then shows how those features developed into designs for human language. The result - what Loritz calls an adaptive grammar - gives a unified explanation of language in the brain and contradicts directly (and controversially) the theory of innateness proposed by, among others, Chomsky and Pinker.
發表於2024-11-27
How the Brain Evolved Language 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載
圖書標籤: 語言學 神經科學 neuroscience Grossberg Brain-computing
How the Brain Evolved Language 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載