Why Only Us  -  Robert C. Berwick

Language and Evolution

KORTE INHOUD

Berwick and Chomsky draw on recent developments in linguistic theory to offer an evolutionary account of language and humans' remarkable, species-specific ability to acquire it. “A loosely connected collection of four essays that will fascinate anyone interested in the extraordinary phenomenon of language.”
— New York Review of Books 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, ...
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2017 Uitgever: The Mit Press 224 paginas Taal: Engels ISBN-10: 0262533499 ISBN-13: 9780262533492