The boundaries of Babel : the brain and the enigma of impossible languages / / Andrea Moro ; translated from Italian by Ivano Caponigro and Daniel B. Kane
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Moro Andrea
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| Titolo: |
The boundaries of Babel : the brain and the enigma of impossible languages / / Andrea Moro ; translated from Italian by Ivano Caponigro and Daniel B. Kane
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| Pubblicazione: | Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, ©2008 |
| ©2008 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (281 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 401 |
| Soggetto topico: | Biolinguistics |
| Soggetto non controllato: | LINGUISTICS & LANGUAGE/General |
| NEUROSCIENCE/General | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [231]-243) and indexes. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Contents; Foreword; Translators' note; Preface; Acknowledgments; Prologue; 1 Hidden Texture; 2 Language in the Brain; 3 The Form of Grammar; Epilogue; References; Name Index; Subject Index |
| Sommario/riassunto: | This text is an exploration of what research at the intersection of contemporary theoretical linguistics and the cognitive neurosciences can reveal about the constraints on the apparently chaotic variation in human languages. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The boundaries of Babel |
| ISBN: | 0-262-28020-5 |
| 1-4356-4878-1 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910811183203321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
| Opac: | Controlla la disponibilità qui |
Serie:
Current studies in linguistics series ; ; 46.