| Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 471 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
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Strüngmann Forum reports |
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Strüngmann Forum reports.
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| Contents |
Syntax for non-syntacticians : a brief primer / Derek Bickerton -- The biological background of syntax evolution / Anna Fedor, Péter Ittzés, and Eörs Szathmáry -- Functional neuroimaging and the logic of brain operations : methodologies, caveats, and fundamental examples from language research / Balázs Gulyás -- Some elements of syntactic computations / Luigi Rizzi -- The adaptive approach to grammar / T. Givón -- Fundamental syntactic phenomena and their putative relation to the brain / Edith Kaan -- What kinds of syntactic phenomena must biologists, neurobiologists, and computer scientists try to explain and replicate? / Maggie Tallerman [and others] -- Possible precursors of syntactic components in other species / Austin T. Hilliard and Stephanie A. White -- What can developmental language impairment tell us about the genetic bases of syntax? / Dorothy V.M. Bishop -- What are the possible biological and genetic foundations for syntactic phenomena? / Szabolcs Számadó [and others] -- Brain circuits of syntax / Angela D. Friederici -- Neural organization for syntactic processing as determined by effects of lesions : logic, data, and difficult questions / David Caplan -- Reflections on the neurobiology of syntax / Peter Hagoort -- What are the brain mechanisms underlying syntactic operations? / Anna Fedor [and others] -- Syntax as an adaptation to the learner / Simon Kirby, Morten H. Christiansen, and Nick Chater -- Cognition and social dynamics play a major role in the formation of grammar / Luc Steels -- What can formal or computational models tell us about how (much) language shaped the brain? / Ted Briscoe -- What can mathematical, computational, and robotic models tell us about the origin of syntax? / Herbert Jaeger [and others] |
| Summary |
Interdisciplinary perspectives on the evolutionary & biological roots of syntax, describing current research on syntax in fields ranging from linguistics to neurology |
| Analysis |
LINGUISTICS & LANGUAGE/General |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax -- Congresses
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Biolinguistics -- Congresses
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Linguistics.
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Language acquisition.
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Linguistics
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Language Development
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Models, Neurological
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linguistics.
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SCIENCE -- Cognitive Science.
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Linguistics
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Language acquisition
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Biolinguistics
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax
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Biolinguistik
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Biologie
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Syntax
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Neurolinguistik.
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Biolinguistik.
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Syntax.
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Syntax -- konferenser.
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Neurolingvistik -- konferenser.
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proceedings (reports)
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Conference papers and proceedings
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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Actes de congrès.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Bickerton, Derek
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Szathmáry, Eörs.
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| ISBN |
9780262258586 |
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0262258587 |
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0262013568 |
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9780262013567 |
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1282694286 |
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9781282694286 |
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