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Author : Lyle Jenkins
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0521003911
Argues that biology plays a more central role in language acquisition than teaching or learning.
Author : Talmy Givón
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1588112268
This book examines the parallels between language evolution and language diachrony. Sociality, co-operation and communication are shown to be rooted in a common evolutionary source, the kin-based hunting and gathering society of intimates.
Author : Koji Fujita,Cedric A. Boeckx
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2016-02-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317486190
Biolinguistics is a highly interdisciplinary field that seeks the rapprochement between linguistics and biology. Linking theoretical linguistics, theoretical biology, genetics, neuroscience and cognitive psychology, this book offers a collection of chapters situating the enterprise conceptually, highlighting both the promises and challenges of the field, and chapters focusing on the challenges and prospects of taking interdisciplinarity seriously. It provides concrete illustrations of some of the cutting-edge research in biolinguistics and piques the interest of undergraduate students looking for a field to major in and inspires graduate students on possible research directions. It is also meant to show to specialists in adjacent fields how a particular strand of theoretical linguistics relates to their concerns, and in so doing, the book intends to foster collaboration across disciplines. Chapter 1 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.
Author : Cedric Boeckx,Kleanthes K. Grohmann
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2013-02-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781107354531
Biolinguistics involves the study of language from a broad perspective that embraces natural sciences, helping us better to understand the fundamentals of the faculty of language. This Handbook offers the most comprehensive state-of-the-field survey of the subject available. A team of prominent scholars working in a variety of disciplines is brought together to examine language development, language evolution and neuroscience, as well as providing overviews of the conceptual landscape of the field. The Handbook includes work at the forefront of contemporary research devoted to the evidence for a language instinct, the critical period hypothesis, grammatical maturation, bilingualism, the relation between mind and brain and the role of natural selection in language evolution. It will be welcomed by graduate students and researchers in a wide range of disciplines, including linguistics, evolutionary biology and cognitive science.
Author : Antonino Pennisi,Alessandra Falzone
Publisher : Springer
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2016-12-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783319476889
This book proposes a radically evolutionary approach to biolinguistics that consists in considering human language as a form of species-specific intelligence entirely embodied in the corporeal structures of Homo sapiens. The book starts with a historical reconstruction of two opposing biolinguistic models: the Chomskian Biolinguistic Model (CBM) and the Darwinian Biolinguistic Model (DBM). The second part compares the two models and develops into a complete reconsideration of the traditional biolinguistic issues in an evolutionary perspective, highlighting their potential influence on the paradigm of biologically oriented cognitive science. The third part formulates the philosophical, evolutionary and experimental basis of an extended theory of linguistic performativity within a naturalistic perspective of pragmatics of verbal language. The book proposes a model in which the continuity between human and non-human primates is linked to the gradual development of the articulatory and neurocerebral structures, and to a kind of prelinguistic pragmatics which characterizes the common nature of social learning. In contrast, grammatical, semantic and pragmatic skills that mark the learning of historical-natural languages are seen as a rapid acceleration of cultural evolution. The book makes clear that this acceleration will not necessarily favour the long-term adaptations for Homo sapiens.
Author : Elliot Murphy
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2012-11-09
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781291186772
This study explores the current stage of generative linguistics, the Minimalist Program, and examines its philosophical implications, tracing the basic themes back to the seventeenth-century scientific revolutions and the nineteenth-century biological tradition of formalism. Expositions of the 'philosophy of biolinguistics' have previously been few and short, and exploring the insights of recent theoretical linguists and neurobiologists can shed some much needed light on the problems posed by analytical philosophy, such as traditional questions of 'reference' and 'truth.'
Author : Cedric Boeckx,Kleanthes K. Grohmann
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2018-03-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1108454100
Biolinguistics involves the study of language from a broad perspective that embraces natural sciences, helping us better to understand the fundamentals of the faculty of language. This Handbook offers the most comprehensive state-of-the-field survey of the subject available. A team of prominent scholars working in a variety of disciplines is brought together to examine language development, language evolution and neuroscience, as well as providing overviews of the conceptual landscape of the field. The Handbook includes work at the forefront of contemporary research devoted to the evidence for a language instinct, the critical period hypothesis, grammatical maturation, bilingualism, the relation between mind and brain and the role of natural selection in language evolution. It will be welcomed by graduate students and researchers in a wide range of disciplines, including linguistics, evolutionary biology and cognitive science.
Author : Anne-Marie Di Sciullo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Biolinguistics
ISBN : 1138859168
Author : Anna Maria Di Sciullo,Cedric Boeckx
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2011-03-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780199553273
This book, by leading scholars, represents some of the main work in progress in biolinguistics. It offers fresh perspectives on language evolution and variation, new developments in theoretical linguistics, and insights on the relations between variation in language and variation in biology. The authors address the Darwinian questions on the origin and evolution of language from a minimalist perspective, and provide elegant solutions to the evolutionary gap between human language and communication in all other organisms. They consider language variation in the context of current biological approaches to species diversity - the 'evo-devo revolution' - which bring to light deep homologies between organisms. In dispensing with the classical notion of syntactic parameters, the authors argue that language variation, like biodiversity, is the result of experience and thus not a part of the language faculty in the narrow sense. They also examine the nature of this core language faculty, the primary categories with which it is concerned, the operations it performs, the syntactic constraints it poses on semantic interpretation and the role of phases in bridging the gap between brain and syntax. Written in language accessible to a wide audience, The Biolinguistic Enterprise will appeal to scholars and students of linguistics, cognitive science, biology, and natural language processing.
Author : Anna Maria Di Sciullo
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2016-11-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027266309
The papers assembled in this volume aim to contribute to our understanding of the human capacity for language: the generative procedure that relates sounds and meanings via syntax. Different hypotheses about the properties of this generative procedure are under discussion, and their connection with biology is open to important cross-disciplinary work. Advances have been made in human-animal studies to differentiate human language from animal communication. Contributions from neurosciences point to the exclusive properties of the human brain for language. Studies in genetically based language impairments also contribute to the understanding of the properties of the language organ. This volume brings together contributions on theoretical and experimental investigations on the Language Faculty. It will be of interest to scholars and students investigating the properties of the biological basis of language, in terms the modeling of the language faculty, as well as the properties of language variation, language acquisition and language impairments.
Author : Juan Uriagereka
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2018-06-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781351622257
This volume collects some of Juan Uriagereka’s previously published pieces and presentations on biolinguistics in recent years in one comprehensive volume. The book’s introduction lays the foundation for the field of biolinguistics, which looks to integrate concepts from the natural sciences in the analysis of natural language, situating the discussion within the minimalist framework. The volume then highlights eight of the author’s key papers from the literature, some co-authored, representative of both the architectural and evolutionary considerations to be taken into account within biolinguistic research. The book culminates in a final chapter showcasing the body of work being done on biolinguistics within the research program at the University of Maryland and their implications for interdisciplinary research and future directions for the field. This volume is essential reading for students and scholars interested in the interface between language and the natural sciences, including linguistics, syntax, biology, archaeology, and anthropology.
Author : Clarence Linton Meader,John Henry Muyskens
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1950
Category : Language and languages
ISBN : MSU:31293103705921
Author : Fahad Rashed Al-Mutairi
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2014-10-16
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781107041349
This evaluation of Chomsky's work from the perspectives of linguistics, evolution of language, history of physics, and philosophy of mind is interdisciplinary. It encourages linguists to reflect on the foundations of their discipline, and invites non-linguists to appreciate the complexity of human language and its place in the world.
Author : Ekaterina Velmezova,Kalevi Kull,Stephen J. Cowley
Publisher : Springer
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2015-12-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319206639
The first international volume on the topic of biosemiotics and linguistics. It aims to establish a new relationship between linguistics and biology as based on shared semiotic foundation.
Author : Cedric Boeckx,María del Carmen Horno-Chéliz
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2012-03-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781443838429
The present volume offers a collection of essays covering a broad range of areas where currently a rapprochement between linguistics and biology is actively being sought. Following a certain tradition, we call this attempt at a synthesis “biolinguistics.” The nine chapters (grouped into three parts: Language and Cognition, Language and the Brain, and Language and the Species) offer a comprehensive overview of issues at the forefront of biolinguistic research, such as language structure; language development; linguistic change and variation; language disorders and language processing; the cognitive, neural and genetic basis of linguistic knowledge; or the evolution of the Faculty of Language. Each contribution highlights exciting prospects for the field, but they also point to significant obstacles along the way. The main conclusion is that the age of theoretical exclusivity in Linguistics, much like the age of theoretical specificity, will have to end if interdisciplinarity is to reign and if biolinguistics is to flourish.
