Full Description
Biolinguistics, the study of the relation between humans' biology and the properties of the Language Faculty, is an emergent and lively field, and is central to linguistics. It gives rise to lively debates on the origin of language, and the specificity of human language in the animal kingdom as well as the biological basis of the human language capacities. This new four volume collection assembles the most important contributions to the field, exploring the foundations of the subject and language development, variation in languages and biology, and complexities in language and biology.
Contents
Volume IV Complexity, Grammar, Human/Animal Divide, Brain Studies, Part Grammar 51 Three models for the description of language 52 Units in the analysis of signs 53 Sentence and word complexity 54 The acquisition of recursion: how formalism articulates the child's path 55 On the absence of X-within-X recursion in human gramma 56 On the domain specificity of the human language faculty and the effects of principles of computational efficiency: contrasting language and mathematics Part 1 Human/animal divide 57 Numerical representations in primates 58 Counting in animals and humans 59 Computational constraints on syntactic processing in a nonhuman primate 60 Recursion, language, and starlings 61 Neural systems for vocal learning in birds and humans: a synopsis 62 FoxP2 in song-learning birds and vocal-learning mammals 63 Language development and the ontogeny of the dorsa pathway Part 1 Brain studies 64 Still a bridge too far? Biolinguistic questions for grounding language on brains 65 Syntactic complexity in the brain 66 The neural basis of recursion and complex syntactic hierarchy 67 Mathematical logic in the human brain: syntax 68 Mathematical logic in the human brain: semantics.
