Language, frogs, and savants
Subtitle: more linguistic problems, puzzles, and polemics
By: Neil Smith.
Publisher: Blackwell Pub.
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Malden, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 212
ISBN-13: 9781405130370; 9781405130387
Subjects: Language and languages.; Linguistics.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Savants; title: Singing by the dead; title: Maganar Hannu; title: Sneering at the arts; title: Babes and sucklings; title: Censored?; title: Did you know that the Portuguese for turkey is peru?; title: Obstinacy; title: Backlash; title: Is there a gene for linguists?; title: Frogs, parrots, grooming, the basal ganglia, and language; title: Parametric poverty; title: Linguistics by numbers; title: Modules, modals, maths, and the mind; title: Nothing; title: The; title: Are gucks mentally represented?.