The language organ : linguistics as cognitive physiology /
Challenging and original, The Language Organ treats human language as the manifestation of a faculty of the mind, a mental organ whose nature is determined by human biology and whose functional properties should be explored just as physiology explores the functional properties of physical organs.
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2002.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; 1 Studying the human language faculty; 2 Language as a mental organ; 3 Syntax; 4 Sound patterns in language; 5 Describing linguistic knowledge; 6 Phonetics and the I-linguistics of speech; 7 Morphology; 8 Language change; 9 "Growing" a language; 10 The organic basis of language; References; Index.