Harry Van Der Hulst

A Mind for Language

An Introduction to the Innateness Debate

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Produktbeschreibung

"Illustrated with real-life examples throughout, this book provides a complete introduction to one of the most fundamental question about what it means to be human: how does human language arise in the mind? Theory is explained in an easy-to-understand way, making it accessible for students without a background in linguistics"--

Produktdetails

• Verlag: European Community
• Seitenzahl: 618
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. September 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 1139g
• ISBN-13: 9781108471572
• ISBN-10: 1108471579
• Artikelnr.: 67637317

Autorenporträt

Harry van der Hulst is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Connecticut. He has been Editor-in-Chief of The Linguistic Review since 1990. Recent publications include Asymmetries in Vowel Harmony (2018, Oxford University Press) and Radical CV Phonology (2020, Edinburgh University Press).

Inhaltsangabe

I. Introduction
1. What this book is about
II. The never-ending debate
2. The innateness hypothesis
3. Philosophy of mind
4. Cognitive science
5. Modularity
III. The mental grammar, language universals and language change
6. The organization of the mental grammar
7. Language universals
8. Language change
IV. Language acquisition
9. Language acquisition: the road from input to mental grammar
10. Stages of language acquisition
11. Critical period effects
12. How children create new languages
V. Language in a different modality
13. Sign languages
VI. Winding up
14. Evaluating the arguments: a forum discussion.