LEADER 03872nam 2200685 450 001 9910789152103321 005 20230629171944.0 010 $a0-674-72853-X 010 $a0-674-72852-1 024 7 $a10.4159/9780674728523 035 $a(CKB)3710000000081468 035 $a(EBL)3301372 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001083396 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11587155 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001083396 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11016194 035 $a(PQKB)10030614 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3301372 035 $a(DE-B1597)460912 035 $a(OCoLC)867049995 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780674728523 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3301372 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10823649 035 $a(OCoLC)923120205 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000081468 100 $a20140118d2014 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aMore than nature needs $elanguage, mind, and evolution /$fDerek Bickerton 205 $aPilot project. eBook available to selected US libraries only 210 1$aCambridge, Massachusetts :$cHarvard University Press,$d2014. 210 4$dİ2014 215 $a1 online resource (280 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-674-72490-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tCHAPTER 1. Wallace?s Problem --$tCHAPTER 2. Generative Theory --$tCHAPTER 3. The ?Specialness? of Humans --$tCHAPTER 4. From Animal Communication to Protolanguage --$tCHAPTER 5. Universal Grammar --$tCHAPTER 6. Variation and Change --$tCHAPTER 7. Language ?Acquisition? --$tCHAPTER 8. Creolization --$tCHAPTER 9. Homo Sapiens Loquens --$tReferences --$tAcknowledgments --$tIndex 330 $aHow did humans acquire cognitive capacities far more powerful than any hunting-and-gathering primate needed to survive? Alfred Russel Wallace, co-founder with Darwin of evolutionary theory, set humans outside normal evolution. Darwin thought use of language might have shaped our sophisticated brains, but this remained an intriguing guess--until now. Combining state-of-the-art research with forty years of writing and thinking about language origins, Derek Bickerton convincingly resolves a crucial problem that biology and the cognitive sciences have systematically avoided. Before language or advanced cognition could be born, humans had to escape the prison of the here and now in which animal thinking and communication were both trapped. Then the brain's self-organization, triggered by words, assembled mechanisms that could link not only words but the concepts those words symbolized--a process that had to be under conscious control. Those mechanisms could be used equally for thinking and for talking, but the skeletal structures they produced were suboptimal for the hearer and had to be elaborated. Starting from humankind's remotest past, More than Nature Needs transcends nativist thesis and empiricist antithesis by presenting a revolutionary synthesis that shows specifically and in a principled way how and why the synthesis came about. 606 $aLanguage and languages 606 $aHuman evolution$xPsychological aspects 606 $aLanguage acquisition$xPsychological aspects 606 $aCognitive grammar 606 $aPsycholinguistics 615 0$aLanguage and languages. 615 0$aHuman evolution$xPsychological aspects. 615 0$aLanguage acquisition$xPsychological aspects. 615 0$aCognitive grammar. 615 0$aPsycholinguistics. 676 $a401/.9 700 $aBickerton$b Derek$0168758 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910789152103321 996 $aMore than nature needs$93850615 997 $aUNINA