Lingua ex machina : reconciling Darwin and Chomsky with the human brain / William H. Calvin, Derek Bickerton.

"A proper lingua ex machina would be a language machine capable of nesting phrases and clauses inside one another, complete with evolutionary pedigree. Such circuitry for structured thought might also facilitate creative shaping up of quality (figuring out what to do with the leftovers in the r...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Calvin, William H., 1939-
Other Authors:	Bickerton, Derek
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 2000. ©2000
Subjects:	Chomsky, Noam. Darwin, Charles, > 1809-1882. Darwin, Charles, > 1809-1882 Neurolinguistics. Brain > Evolution. Language acquisition. Neurophysiology. Psycholinguistics. psycholinguistics. Taalgenese. Taalvermogen. Neurologische aspecten. Neurolinguïstiek. Hersenen. Neuroscience. Human Anatomy & Physiology. Health & Biological Sciences.
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Table of Contents:

1. The Villa Serbelloni / William H. Calvin
2. What are words? / Derek Bickerton
3. Why putting words together isn't easy / Derek Bickerton
4. Bigger than a word, smaller than a sentence / Derek Bickerton
5. Language in the brain / William H. Calvin
6. How are memories stored? / William H. Calvin
7. Hexagonal mosaics and Darwin machines / William H. Calvin
8. A common code : the brain's esperanto problem / William H. Calvin
9. Protolanguage emerging / Derek Bickerton
10. Reciprocal altruism as the predecessor of argument structure / Derek Bickerton
11. Role links for words / Derek Bickerton
12. The word tree as a secondary use of throwing's segmented movement planner / William H. Calvin
13. Corticocortical coherence promotes a many-voiced symphonic sentence / William H. Calvin
14. The pump and the slingshot / William H. Calvin
15. Darwin and Chomsky together at last / Derek Bickerton.

Lingua ex machina : reconciling Darwin and Chomsky with the human brain / William H. Calvin, Derek Bickerton.

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