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Of Minds and Language
A Dialogue with Noam Chomsky in the Basque Country
Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini, Juan Uriagereka, and Pello Salaburu
472 pages
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Figures, Drawings
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246x171mm
978-0-19-954467-7
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Paperback
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07 October 2010
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- The most genuinely interdisciplinary anywhere in the literature
- An accessible and critical synthesis of today's perspectives on the study of language
- Includes dramatic debates between world-class scholars
This book presents a state-of-the-art account of what we know and would like to know about language, mind, and brain. Chapters by leading researchers in linguistics, psycholinguistics, language acquisition, cognitive neuroscience, comparative cognitive psychology, and evolutionary biology are framed by an introduction and conclusion by Noam Chomsky, who places the biolinguistic enterprise in an historical context and helps define its agenda for the future.
The questions explored include:
What is our tacit knowledge of language?
What is the faculty of language?
How does it develop in the
individual?
How is that knowledge put to use?
How is it implemented in the brain?
How did that knowledge emerge in the species?
The book includes the contributor's key discussions, which dramatically bring to life their enthusiasm for the enterprise and skill in communicating across disciplines. Everyone seriously interested in how language works and why it works the way it does are certain to find, if not all the answers, then a convincing, productive, and lively approach to the endeavour.Readership: All linguists, evolutionary biologists, neuroscientists, cognitive psychologists, evolutionary psychologists, philosophers of language, philosophers of mind,
and all those interested in the role of language in human development, cognition, and communication.
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Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini, University of Arizona, Juan Uriagereka, University of Maryland, and Pello Salaburu, University of the Basque Country Contributors:
Thomas G. Bever, University of Arizona
Cedric Boeckx, Autonomous University of Barcelona
Christopher Cherniak, University of Maryland
Noam Chomsky, MIT
Gabriel Dover, University of Leicester
Janet Dean Fodor, City University of New York
Angela D. Friederici, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences
C. R. Gallistel, Rutgers Center for Cognitive Science
Rochel Gelman, Rutgers Center for Cognitive Science
Lila Gleitman, University of Pennsylvania
Marc D. Hauser, Harvard University
James Higginbotham, University of Southern California
Wolfram Hinzen, Durham University
Itziar Laka, University of the Basque Country
Luigi Rizzi, University of Siena
Núria Sebastián-Gallés, University of Barcelona
Donata Vercelli, University of Arizona
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1: Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini, Pello Salaburu, and Juan Uriagereka: Introduction
Part 1: Overtures
2: Noam Chomsky: Opening Remarks
3: Cedric Boeckx: The Nature of Merge: Consequences for Language, Mind, and Biology
4: C. R. Gallistel: The Foundational Abstractions
5: Marc D. Hauser: Evolingo: The Nature of the Language Faculty
6: Gabriel Dover: Pointers to a Biology of Language?
7: Donata Vercelli: Language in an Epigenetic Framework
8: Christopher Cherniak: Brain Wiring Optimization and Non-Genomic Nativism
Part 2: On Language
9: Wolfram Hinzen: Hierarchy, Merge, and Truth
10: James Higginbotham: Two Interfaces
11: Luigi Rizzi: Movement and Concepts of Locality
12: Juan Uriagereka: Uninterpretable Features in Syntactic Evolution
13: Angela D. Friederici: The Brain Differentiates Hierarchical and Probabilistic Grammars
14: Cedric Boeckz, Janet Dean Fodor, Lila Gleitman, Luigi Rizzi: Round Table: Language Universals: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
Part 3: On Acquisition
15: Rochel Gelman: Innate Learning and Beyond
16: Lila Gleitman: The Learned Component of Language Learning
17: Janet Dean Fodor: Syntactic Acquisition: An Evaluation Measure After All?
18: Thomas G. Bever: Remarks on the Individual Basis for Linguistic Structures
Part 4: Open Talks on Open Inquiries
19: Marc D. Hauser: The Illusion of Biological Variation: A Minimalist Approach to the Mind
20: Itziar Laka: What is There in Universal Grammar? On Innate and Specific Aspects of Language
21: Núria Sebastián-Gallés: Individual Differences in Foreigh Sound Perception
22: Angela D. Friederici: Language and the Brain
23: Noam Chomsky: Conclusion
References
Index
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