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Record Nr.

UNINA9910822715203321

Titolo

The inheritance and innateness of grammars / / edited by Myrna Gopnik [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York ; , : Oxford University Press, , 2023

ISBN

0-19-772174-5

1-280-46999-4

0-19-535400-1

1-60256-211-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (241 p.)

Collana

Vancouver studies in cognitive science ; ; v.6.

Oxford scholarship online

Disciplina

401

Soggetti

Innateness hypothesis (Linguistics)

Biolinguistics

Language disorders

Language acquisition

Language and languages - Origin

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously issued in print: 1997.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Contributors; 1. Introduction; 2. Evolution, Nativism and Learning in the Development of Language and Speech; 3. In the Beginning: On the Genetic and Environmental Factors that Make Early Language Acquisition Possible; 4. Exploring Innateness through Cultural and Linguistic Variation; 5. Epidemiology of Specific Language Impairment; 6. The Biological Basis of Language: Familial Language Impairment; 7. The Grammatical Agreement Deficit in Specific Language Impairment: Evidence from Therapy Experiments; 8. Specific Language Impairment, Cognition and the Biological Basis of Language

9. Evolutionary Biology and the Evolution of Language10. A Neurobiological Approach to the Noninvariance Problem in Stop Consonant Categorization

Sommario/riassunto

Based on an annual conference at Simon Fraser University, this volume collects together papers that discuss the evidence and arguments



regarding the inheritability and innateness of grammar, and shows that whole precursors of language exist in other creatures. In the VANCOUVER STUDIES IN COGNITIVE SCIENCE series.