Biological foundations and origin of syntax / edited by Derek Bickerton and Eörs Szathmáry.
| Author/creator | Ernst Strüngmann Forum |
| Other author | Bickerton, Derek. |
| Other author | Szathmáry, Eörs. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, |
| Description | xviii, 471 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from MIT Press Direct to Open Backfile HSS Monographs |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Series | Strüngmann Forum reports Strüngmann Forum reports. ^A786894 |
| Contents | Syntax for non-syntacticians : a brief primer / Derek Bickerton -- The biological background of syntax evolution / Anna Fedor, Péter Ittzés, and Eörs Szathmáry -- Functional neuroimaging and the logic of brain operations : methodologies, caveats, and fundamental examples from language research / Balázs Gulyás -- Some elements of syntactic computations / Luigi Rizzi -- The adaptive approach to grammar / T. Givón -- Fundamental syntactic phenomena and their putative relation to the brain / Edith Kaan -- What kinds of syntactic phenomena must biologists, neurobiologists, and computer scientists try to explain and replicate? / Maggie Tallerman ... [et al.] -- Possible precursors of syntactic components in other species / Austin T. Hilliard and Stephanie A. White -- What can developmental language impairment tell us about the genetic bases of syntax? / Dorothy V.M. Bishop -- What are the possible biological and genetic foundations for syntactic phenomena? / Szabolcs Számadó ... [et al.] -- Brain circuits of syntax / Angela D. Friederici -- Neural organization for syntactic processing as determined by effects of lesions : logic, data, and difficult questions / David Caplan -- Reflections on the neurobiology of syntax / Peter Hagoort -- What are the brain mechanisms underlying syntactic operations? / Anna Fedor ... [et al.] -- Syntax as an adaptation to the learner / Simon Kirby, Morten H. Christiansen, and Nick Chater -- Cognition and social dynamics play a major role in the formation of grammar / Luc Steels -- What can formal or computational models tell us about how (much) language shaped the brain? / Ted Briscoe -- What can mathematical, computational, and robotic models tell us about the origin of syntax? / Herbert Jaeger ... [et al.]. |
| General note | Forum held July 13-18, 2008, in Frankfurt, Germany. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2009023478 |
| ISBN | 9780262013567 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0262013568 (hardcover : alk. paper) |