Advances in biolinguistics : the human language faculty and its biological basis /

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Group Author: Fujita, Kōji, 1958- (Editor); Boeckx, Cedric (Editor)
Published: Routledge,
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.
ISBN: 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.