Of minds and language: a dialogue with noam chomsky in the basque country

This book presents a state-of-the-art account of what we know and would like to know about language, mind, and brain. It brings together leading researchers in linguistics, psycholinguistics, language acquisition, cognitive neuroscience, comparative cognitive psychology, and evolutionary biology. INDICE: 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 Approachto 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

• ISBN: 978-0-19-954467-7
• Editorial: Oxford University
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 480
• Fecha Publicación: 07/10/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés