Variation and universals in biolinguistics
By: editor, Lyle Jenkins.
Contributors: Jenkins, Lyle.
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: North-Holland linguistic series. Linguistic variations -- v. 62.; North-Holland linguistic series -- 62.
Publisher: Elsevier
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Amsterdam; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 421
Subjects: Biolinguistics; Language and languages -- Variation
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Antisymmetry and Japanese / Richard Kayne; title: Toward a theory of language growth / Charles Yang; title: Phase transitions in language evolution / Partha Niyogi; title: Genetic differences and language affinities / Isabelle Dupanloup; title: Beyond narrow syntax / Sergey Avrutin; title: Evidence for and implications of a domain-specific grammatical deficit / Heather K.J. van der Lely; title: The representation of grammatical knowledge in the brain / Alfonso Caramazza and Kevin Shapiro; title: Variation in Broca's region : preliminary cross-methodological comparisons / Yosef Grodzinsky; title: Language emergence in a language-ready brain : acquisition / Judy Kegl; title: Lenneberg's dream : learning, normal language development and specific language impairment / Ken Wexler; title: Exploring the phenotype of specific language impairment : a look at grammatical variability / Larry Leonard; title: The investigation of genetic dysphasia / Myrna Gopnik; title: Unification in biolinguistics / Lyle Jenkins; title: The immune syntax : the evolution of the language virus / Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini and Juan Uriagereka; title: Language and mind : current thoughts on ancient problems / Noam Chomsky.