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Biological foundations and origin of syntax / / edited by Derek Bickerton and Eors Szathmary
| Biological foundations and origin of syntax / / edited by Derek Bickerton and Eors Szathmary |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, MA, : MIT Press, 2009 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (491 p.) |
| Disciplina | 612.8/2336 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
BickertonDerek
SzathmaryEors |
| Collana | Strungmann Forum reports |
| Soggetto topico |
Grammar, Comparative and general - Syntax
Biolinguistics |
| ISBN |
0-262-29379-X
1-282-69428-6 9786612694288 0-262-25858-7 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Contents; The Ernst Strüngmann Forum; List of Contributors; Preface; Background; 1 Syntax for Non-syntacticians; 2 The Biological Background of Syntax Evolution; 3 Functional Neuroimaging and the Logic of Brain Operations; Syntactics; 4 Some Elements of Syntactic Computations; 5 The Adaptive Approach to Grammar; 6 Fundamental Syntactic Phenomena and Their Putative Relation to the Brain; 7 What Kinds of Syntactic Phenomena Must Biologists, Neurobiologists, and Computer Scientists Try to Explain and Replicate?; Evolution; 8 Possible Precursors of Syntactic Components in Other Species
9 What Can Developmental Language Impairment Tell Us about the Genetic Bases of Syntax?10 What Are the Possible Biological and Genetic Foundations for Syntactic Phenomena?; Brain; 11 Brain Circuits of Syntax; 12 Neural Organization for Syntactic Processing as Determined by Effects of Lesions; 13 Reflections on the Neurobiology of Syntax; 14 What Are the Brain Mechanisms Underlying Syntactic Operations?; Modeling; 15 Syntax as an Adaptation to the Learner; 16 Cognition and Social Dynamics Play a Major Role in the Formation of Grammar 17 What Can Formal or Computational Models Tell Us about How (Much) Language Shaped the Brain?18 What Can Mathematical, Computational, and Robotic Models Tell Us about the Origins of Syntax?; Glossary; Bibliography; Subject Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910821282303321 |
| Cambridge, MA, : MIT Press, 2009 | ||
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The major transitions in evolution / / John Maynard Smith and Eors Szathmary
| The major transitions in evolution / / John Maynard Smith and Eors Szathmary |
| Autore | Maynard Smith John <1920-2004.> |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 1997 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (361 p.) |
| Disciplina | 576.8 |
| Altri autori (Persone) | SzathmaryEors |
| Collana | Oxford scholarship online |
| Soggetto topico |
Evolution (Biology)
Genetic transformation Natural selection |
| ISBN |
0-19-191923-3
0-19-158600-5 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Cover; Contents; List of tables; Preface; 1 Introduction; 2 What is life?; 3 Chemical evolution; 4 The evolution of templates; 5 The chicken and egg problem; 6 The origin of translation and the genetic code; 7 The origin of protocells; 8 The origin of eukaryotes; 9 The origin of sex and the nature of species; 10 Intragenomic conflict; 11 Symbiosis; 12 Development in simple organisms; 13 Gene regulation and cell heredity; 14 The development of spatial patterns; 15 Development and evolution; 16 The origins of societies; 17 The origin of language; References; Author index; Subject index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910808999703321 |
Maynard Smith John <1920-2004.>
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| Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 1997 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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