Foundations of Language: A Biological Paradigm - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Foundations of Language: A Biological Paradigm write by Ashraf Bhat. This book was released on 2011. Foundations of Language: A Biological Paradigm available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Biological Foundations of Language
Biological Foundations of Language - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Biological Foundations of Language write by Eric H. Lenneberg. This book was released on 1967-01-15. Biological Foundations of Language available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "The study of language is pertinent to many fields of inquiry. It is relevant to psychology, anthropology, philosophy, and medicine. It encroaches upon the humanities, as well as upon the social and natural sciences. We may pursue investigations that concentrate on what man has done with or to specific languages; or we may regard language as a natural phenomenon- an aspect of his biological nature, to be studied in the same manner as, for instance, his anatomy. Which of these approaches is to be chosen is entirely a matter of personal curiosity. This book is concerned with the biological aspects of language." -- Preface
Language Comprehension
Language Comprehension - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Language Comprehension write by Angela D. Friederici. This book was released on 2012-12-06. Language Comprehension available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The second edition of the book on language comprehension in honor of Pim Levelt's sixtieth birthday has been released before he turns sixty-one. Some things move faster than the years of age. This seems to be especially true for advances in science. Therefore, the present edition entails changes in some of the chapters and incorporates an update of the current literature. I would like to thank all contributors for their cooperation in making a second edition possible such a short time after the completion of the first one. Angela D. Friederici Leipzig, November 23, 1998. Preface to the first edition Language comprehension and production is a uniquely human capability. We know little about the evolution of language as a human trait, possibly because our direct ancestors lived several million years ago. This fact certainly impedes the desirable advances in the biological basis of any theory of language evolution. Our knowledge about language as an existing species-specific biological sys tem, however, has advanced dramatically over the last two decades. New experi mental techniques have allowed the investigation of language and language use within the methodological framework of the natural sciences. The present book provides an overview of the experimental research in the area of language com prehension in particular.
Language, Biology and Cognition
Language, Biology and Cognition - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Language, Biology and Cognition write by Prakash Mondal. This book was released on 2019-07-17. Language, Biology and Cognition available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book examines the relationship between human language and biology in order to determine whether the biological foundations of language can offer deep insights into the nature and form of language and linguistic cognition. Challenging the assumption in biolinguistics and neurolinguistics that natural language and linguistic cognition can be reconciled with neurobiology, the author argues that reducing representation to cognitive systems and cognitive systems to neural populations is reductive, leading to inferences about the cognitive basis of linguistic performance based on assuming (false) dependencies. Instead, he finds that biological implementations of cognitive rather than the biological structures themselves, are the driver behind linguistic structures. In particular, this book argues that the biological roots of language are useful only for an understanding of the emergence of linguistic capacity as a whole, but ultimately irrelevant to understanding the character of language. Offering an antidote to the current thinking embracing ‘biologism’ in linguistic sciences, it will be of interest to readers in linguistics, the cognitive and brain sciences, and the points at which these disciplines converge with the computer sciences.
Language Comprehension: A Biological Perspective
Language Comprehension: A Biological Perspective - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Language Comprehension: A Biological Perspective write by Angela D. Friederici. This book was released on 2012-12-06. Language Comprehension: A Biological Perspective available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Language comprehension and production is a uniquely human capability. We know little about the evolution of language as a human trait, possibly because our direct ancestors lived several million years ago. This fact certainly impedes the desirable advances in the biological basis of any theory of language evolution. Our knowledge about language as an existing species-specific biological sys tem, however, has advanced dramatically over the last two decades. New experi mental techniques have allowed the investigation of language and language use within the methodological framework of the natural sciences. The present book provides an overview of the experimental research in the area of language com prehension in particular. A biological perspective on language appears to be the common ground for all the contributors. Their research view is based on the conviction that knowledge about the language system can be gained on the basis of empirical research guided by modifiable theories. Each of the contributors reports and discusses the relevant work in hers or his specific field of research. Each of the nine chapters in this book focuses on a different level or aspect of language comprehension thereby covering the level of input processes and word recognition, the level of sentence processing as well as the level of text processing. Aspects of structural representation, and access to this representation are also discussed. One chapter finally attempts to describe the neurobiological basis of the different aspects of the language compre hension process.
