02136nam 2200445z- 450 991022004090332120231214133330.0(CKB)3800000000216368(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/43672(EXLCZ)99380000000021636820202102d2016 |y 0engurmn|---annantxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierComponents of the language-ready brainFrontiers Media SA20161 electronic resource (132 p.)Frontiers Research Topics2-88919-893-6 This volume highlights new avenues of research in the language sciences, and particularly, in the neurobiology of language. The term “language-ready brain” stresses, on the one hand, the importance of a brain-based description of our species’ linguistic capacity, and, on the other, the need to appreciate the crucial role culture plays in shaping the linguistic systems children acquire and adults use. For this reason, the focus is not put on language per se, but on our learning biases and cognitive pre-dispositions toward language. Both brain and culture are considered at two crucial levels of inquiry: phylogeny and ontogeny. In a fast-growing field like the language sciences and specifically, language evolution studies, this book has tried to capture several of the most exciting topics explored currently, sowing seeds for future investigations.globularizationphonologybrain oscillationsBrain asymmetrylanguage developmentmergeSpeechLanguage productionlanguage-readinesstemporal attentionRetinoic acidCommunicationAntonio Benitez-Burracoauth1255510Cedric BoeckxauthBOOK9910220040903321Components of the language-ready brain3033047UNINA