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200 1. $a Why only us $b Texte imprimé $e language and evolution $f Robert C. Berwick, Noam Chomsky
210 .. $a Cambridge, Massachusetts $c MIT press $d 2016
215 .. $a 1 vol. (215 pages) $c illustrations (some color) $d 21 cm
300 .. $a Includes bibliographical references and index
327 1. $a Chapter 1. Why now? ; Chapter 2. Biolinguistics evolving ; Chapter 3. Language
architecture and its import for evolution ; Chapter 4. Triangles in the brain ;
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330 .. $a 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"--Raises 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. But since
the Minimalist Program, developed by Chomsky and others, we know the key ingredients
of language and can put together an account of the evolution of human language and
what distinguishes us from all other animals. Berwick and Chomsky discuss the biolinguistic
perspective on language, which views language as a particular object of the biological
world; the computational efficiency of language as a system of thought and understanding;
the tension between Darwin's idea of gradual change and our contemporary understanding
about evolutionary change and language; and evidence from nonhuman animals, in particular
vocal learning in songbirds. -- from dust jacket
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