Lyle Jenkins's Biolinguistics: Exploring the Biology of Language PDF

By Lyle Jenkins

ISBN-10: 0511009941

ISBN-13: 9780511009945

ISBN-10: 0521003911

ISBN-13: 9780521003919

ISBN-10: 0521652332

ISBN-13: 9780521652339

This booklet investigates the character of human language and its value for the examine of the brain. It asks what language is from a organic viewpoint and what the relative contribution of nature and nurture is while a baby learns his or her language. eventually it asks how human language advanced and considers the similarities and modifications among human language and animal conversation platforms. Uniquely, it argues that genetic or organic endowment performs a extra crucial position within the aquisition of language than guideline, studying, or cultural determinants.

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As P. B. and J. S. Medawar have pointed out (Medawar and Medawar, 1978:7). And, they note, Keats denounced Newton “for destroying all the beauty of the rainbow by reducing it to its prismatic colours . ” (p. 166). Although the question concerning the logical form of the reciprocal pronoun each other and “silent subjects” may seem less romantic than broader questions concerning language and thought at first glance, in the long run, we hope to be able to piece together a more satisfactory answer to the latter question by breaking the problem down into smaller, more tractable problems.

Even the relevant phenomena had escaped attention until recently, probably because the facts are known “intuitively,” as part of our nature, without experience. Serious inquiry begins when we are willing to be surprised by simple phenomena of nature, such as the fact that an apple falls from a tree, or a phrase means what it does. If we are satisfied with the “explanation” that things fall to their natural place or that our knowledge of form and meaning results from experience or perhaps natural selection, then we can be sure that the very phenomena will remain hidden from view, let alone any understanding of what lies behind them.

Is. Part of the explanation might be the implicit assumption that the generative grammarian is not doing experiments, whereas the developmental psychologist is. 9 Now compare Pinker’s discussion of this: 9 These example sentences and Chomsky’s account of them (one case of “the argument from poverty of the stimulus”) are discussed in more detail in chapter 3. 30 Biolinguistics Chomsky’s claim was tested in an experiment with three-, four-, and five-yearolds at a daycare center by the psycholinguists Stephen Crain and Mineharu Nakayama.

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