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ISBN 10: 0465054625
ISBN 13: 978-0465054626
Author: Ray Jackendoff
What is it about the human mind that accounts for the fact that we can speak and understand a language? Why can’t other creatures do the same? And what does this tell us about the rest of human abilities? Recent dramatic discoveries in linguistics and psychology provide intriguing answers to these age-old mysteries. In this fascinating book, Ray Jackendoff emphasizes the grammatical commonalities across languages, both spoken and signed, and discusses the implications for our understanding of language acquisition and loss.
Patterns In The Mind Language And Human Nature 1st Table of contents:
PART I: The Fundamental Arguments
1: Finding Our Way into the Problem: The Nature/ Nurture Issue
2: The Argument for Mental Grammar
The Communicative Situation
The Argument for Mental Grammar: The Expressive Variety of Language Use Implies that a Language User’s Brain Contains Unconscious Grammatical Principles
Clarifying the Notion of Mental Grammar
3: The Argument for Innate Knowledge
The Character of Language Acquisition
The Argument for Innate Knowledge: The Way Children Learn to Talk Implies that the Human Brain Contains a Genetically Determined Specialization for Language
Questions About Innate Knowledge
Conclusions
PART II: The Organization of Mental Grammar
4: Overview
Language as a Conversion Between Thought and Sound
Functionalism
The Modularity Hypothesis
5: Phonological Structure
Phonological Structure is Neither an Auditory Nor a Motor Pattern
Psychological Reality Vs. Physical Reality of Phonological Structure
The Internal Structure of Speech Sounds
The Paradox Again
What Else Besides Speech is in the Auditory Signal?
6: Syntactic Structure
Syntactic Structure is Distinct from Phonological Structure
Syntactic Structure is Distinct from Meaning
Some Syntactic Patterns
Recursion and Syntactic Movement
Constraints on Long-Distance Dependencies
Universal Grammar in Syntactic Structure
7: American Sign Language
Basic Facts About American Sign Language
Elements of ASL Grammatical Organization
The Fundamental Arguments Again
PART III: Evidence for the Biological Basis of Language
8: How Children Learn Language
Introduction to Part III
Basic Stages of Language Acquisition
Children Know More Than they Say
Evidence for Rules in Sentence Production
Conclusions
9: Language Acquisition in Unusual Circumstances I
Introduction
A Genetic Impairment of Language Acquisition
The Critical Period Hypothesis
Genie and Others
Many More Cases of Late Exposure to Language
10: Language Acquisition in Unusual Circumstances II
Creation of Language: Home Sign
Creation of Language: Creole
Teaching Language to Apes
Assessment
11:Language and the Brain
The Frontiers of Present-Day Brain Science
Language Deficits Due to Brain Damage
Aphasia in ASL
Brain Variation and Plasticity
PART IV: Mental Capacities Other Than Language
12: The Argument for the Construction of Experience
Overview of Part IV
The Argument for the Construction of Experience: The Experience of Spoken Language is Actively Constructed by the Hearer’s Mental Grammar
13: Music and Vision
Music
Vision
Making Visual Understanding Conform to Ideal Forms
14: Language as a Window on Thought
Meaning as an Internal Organization
Meaning is Neither Syntactic Structure Nor Visual Images
Applying the Fundamental Arguments to Conceptual Structure
Figure-ground Organization in Spatial Location
The Same Organization in Abstract Domains of Thought
The Pitfalls of Definitions
Conclusions
15: Social Organization
Introduction
The Capacity for Culture Compared to the Capacity for Language
Applying the Fundamental Arguments
Brain Specializations for Social Perception
Three Concepts at the Basis of Social Understanding
More About Group Membership
Final Thoughts
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