Advances in biolinguistics : the human language faculty and its biological basis /
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Routledge,
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Publisher Address: | London : |
Publication Dates: | 2016. |
Literature type: | Book |
Language: | English |
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Carrier Form: | ix, 276 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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9781138891722 (hardback) : 113889172X (hardback) 9781315709529 (ebook) 131570952X (ebook) |
Index Number: | P132 |
CLC: | H0-05 |
Call Number: | H0-05/A244-1 |
Contents: | Introduction : the biolinguistic program : a new beginning / Koji Fujita and Cedrec Boeckx -- Part I. Computational issues. Feature-equilibria in syntax / Hiroki Narita and Naoki Fukui -- On the primitive operations of syntax / Takomi Kato, Hiroki Narita, Hironobu Kasai, Mihoko Zushi and Naoki Fukui -- Case and predicate-argument relations / Mihoko Zushi -- -- Part II. Development, processing and variations. Structure dependence in child English : new evidence / Koji Sugisaki -- Make a good prediction or get ready for a locality penalty : maybe it's coming late / Hajime Ono, Kentaro Nakatani and Noriaki Yusa -- Some things to learn from the intersection between language and working memory / Gonzalo Castillo -- Eliminating parameters from the narrow syntax : rule ordering variation by third-factor underspecification / Miki Obata and Samuel Epstein -- -- Part III. Conceptual and methodological foundations. On certain fallacies in evolutionary linguistics and how one can eliminate them / Koji Fujita -- Biological pluralism in service of biolinguistics / Pedro Tiago Martins, Evelina Leivada, Antonio Benitez-Burraco and Cedric Boeckx -- On the current status of biolinguistics as a biological science / Masanobu Ueda -- -- Part IV. Evolutionary considerations. Proposing the hypothesis of an earlier emergence of the human language faculty / Masayuki Ike-Uchi -- Two aspects of syntatic evolution / Michio Hosaka -- -- Part V. Topics in neurobiology. Syntax in the brain / Noriaki Yusa -- The central role of the thalamus in language and cognition / Constantina Theofanopoulou and Cedric Boeckx -- A biolinguistic approach to language disorders : towards a paradigm shift in clinical linguistics / Antonio Benitez-Burraco. |