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Darwinian Biolinguistics

Author : Antonino Pennisi
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319476882
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (194 download)

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Download or read book Darwinian Biolinguistics written by Antonino Pennisi and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-12-15 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book proposes a radically evolutionary approach to biolinguistics that consists in considering human language as a form of species-specific intelligence entirely embodied in the corporeal structures of Homo sapiens. The book starts with a historical reconstruction of two opposing biolinguistic models: the Chomskian Biolinguistic Model (CBM) and the Darwinian Biolinguistic Model (DBM). The second part compares the two models and develops into a complete reconsideration of the traditional biolinguistic issues in an evolutionary perspective, highlighting their potential influence on the paradigm of biologically oriented cognitive science. The third part formulates the philosophical, evolutionary and experimental basis of an extended theory of linguistic performativity within a naturalistic perspective of pragmatics of verbal language. The book proposes a model in which the continuity between human and non-human primates is linked to the gradual development of the articulatory and neurocerebral structures, and to a kind of prelinguistic pragmatics which characterizes the common nature of social learning. In contrast, grammatical, semantic and pragmatic skills that mark the learning of historical-natural languages are seen as a rapid acceleration of cultural evolution. The book makes clear that this acceleration will not necessarily favour the long-term adaptations for Homo sapiens.

Darwinism and the Linguistic Image

Author : Stephen G. Alter
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Darwinism and the Linguistic Image written by Stephen G. Alter and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A rich and rewarding account of the often subtle connections that bound the nineteenth-century sciences of language and life." -- British Journal of the History of Science

Biolinguistics

Author : Lyle Jenkins
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781139426411
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (264 download)

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Book Synopsis Biolinguistics by : Lyle Jenkins

Download or read book Biolinguistics written by Lyle Jenkins and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-03-13 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates the nature of human language and its importance for the study of the mind. In particular, it examines current work on the biology of language. Lyle Jenkins reviews the evidence that language is best characterized by a generative grammar of the kind introduced by Noam Chomsky in the 1950s and developed in various directions since that time. He then discusses research into the development of language which tries to capture both the underlying universality of human language, as well as the diversity found in individual languages (Universal Grammar). Finally, he discusses a variety of approaches to language design and the evolution of language. An important theme is the integration of biolinguistics into the natural sciences - the 'unification problem'. Jenkins also answers criticisms of the biolinguistic approach from a number of other perspectives, including evolutionary psychology, cognitive science, connectionism and ape language research, among others.

Selfish Sounds and Linguistic Evolution

Author : Nikolaus Ritt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139451782
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)

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Book Synopsis Selfish Sounds and Linguistic Evolution by : Nikolaus Ritt

Download or read book Selfish Sounds and Linguistic Evolution written by Nikolaus Ritt and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-05-27 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book takes an exciting perspective on language change, by explaining it in terms of Darwin's evolutionary theory. Looking at a number of developments in the history of sounds and words, Nikolaus Ritt shows how the constituents of language can be regarded as mental patterns, or 'memes', which copy themselves from one brain to another when communication and language acquisition take place. Memes are both stable in that they transmit faithfully from brain to brain, and active in that their success at replicating depends upon their own properties. Ritt uses this controversial approach to challenge established models of linguistic competence, in which speakers acquire, use, and shape language. In Darwinian terms, language evolution is something that happens to, rather than through, speakers, and the interests of linguistic constituents matter more than those of their human 'hosts'. This book will stimulate debate among evolutionary biologists, cognitive scientists and linguists alike.

Biosemiotic Perspectives on Language and Linguistics

Author : Ekaterina Velmezova
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 331920663X
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (192 download)

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Book Synopsis Biosemiotic Perspectives on Language and Linguistics by : Ekaterina Velmezova

Download or read book Biosemiotic Perspectives on Language and Linguistics written by Ekaterina Velmezova and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-12-11 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first international volume on the topic of biosemiotics and linguistics. It aims to establish a new relationship between linguistics and biology as based on shared semiotic foundation.

The Biolinguistic Enterprise

Author : Anna Maria Di Sciullo
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199553270
Total Pages : 576 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (995 download)

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Download or read book The Biolinguistic Enterprise written by Anna Maria Di Sciullo and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-03-17 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, by leading scholars, represents some of the main work in progress in biolinguistics. It offers fresh perspectives on language evolution and variation, new developments in theoretical linguistics, and insights on the relations between variation in language and variation in biology. The authors address the Darwinian questions on the origin and evolution of language from a minimalist perspective, and provide elegant solutions to the evolutionary gap between human language and communication in all other organisms. They consider language variation in the context of current biological approaches to species diversity - the 'evo-devo revolution' - which bring to light deep homologies between organisms. In dispensing with the classical notion of syntactic parameters, the authors argue that language variation, like biodiversity, is the result of experience and thus not a part of the language faculty in the narrow sense. They also examine the nature of this core language faculty, the primary categories with which it is concerned, the operations it performs, the syntactic constraints it poses on semantic interpretation and the role of phases in bridging the gap between brain and syntax. Written in language accessible to a wide audience, The Biolinguistic Enterprise will appeal to scholars and students of linguistics, cognitive science, biology, and natural language processing.

Language in a Darwinian Perspective

Author : Bernard H. Bichakjian
Publisher : Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Book Synopsis Language in a Darwinian Perspective by : Bernard H. Bichakjian

Download or read book Language in a Darwinian Perspective written by Bernard H. Bichakjian and published by Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften. This book was released on 2002 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though it is well-known that nothing makes sense in biology except in the light of evolution, in linguistics the received view is to reject the Darwinian approach. This book breaks the prevailing taboo and argues instead that linguistic features - speech sounds, grammatical distinctions and syntactic strategies - have followed an evolutionary course. Though variation exists and gratuitious changes can be found, an in-depth study clearly suggests that on the whole linguistic features have developed under two sets of selections pressures: the pressure to reduce the neuromuscular cost, and the concomitant pressure to find ever-more functional alternatives. Moving on from language to writing, the author argues that the observed optimalization process also applies to the evolution of writing from hieroglyphs to alphabets. Both language and writing are indeed better understood in the light of evolution.

The Routledge Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics

Author : Wen Xu
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351034693
Total Pages : 792 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics written by Wen Xu and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-06-04 with total page 792 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics provides a comprehensive introduction and essential reference work to cognitive linguistics. It encompasses a wide range of perspectives and approaches, covering all the key areas of cognitive linguistics and drawing on interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary research in pragmatics, discourse analysis, biolinguistics, ecolinguistics, evolutionary linguistics, neuroscience, language pedagogy, and translation studies. The forty-three chapters, written by international specialists in the field, cover four major areas: • Basic theories and hypotheses, including cognitive semantics, cognitive grammar, construction grammar, frame semantics, natural semantic metalanguage, and word grammar; • Central topics, including embodiment, image schemas, categorization, metaphor and metonymy, construal, iconicity, motivation, constructionalization, intersubjectivity, grounding, multimodality, cognitive pragmatics, cognitive poetics, humor, and linguistic synaesthesia, among others; • Interfaces between cognitive linguistics and other areas of linguistic study, including cultural linguistics, linguistic typology, figurative language, signed languages, gesture, language acquisition and pedagogy, translation studies, and digital lexicography; • New directions in cognitive linguistics, demonstrating the relevance of the approach to social, diachronic, neuroscientific, biological, ecological, multimodal, and quantitative studies. The Routledge Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics is an indispensable resource for undergraduate and postgraduate students, and for all researchers working in this area.

Protomusic: The role of Prosodic Modulation in the Emergence of Language

Author : Alessandra Anastasi
Publisher : Vernon Press
ISBN 13 : 1648895484
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (488 download)

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Book Synopsis Protomusic: The role of Prosodic Modulation in the Emergence of Language by : Alessandra Anastasi

Download or read book Protomusic: The role of Prosodic Modulation in the Emergence of Language written by Alessandra Anastasi and published by Vernon Press. This book was released on 2022-11-15 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anastasi introduces an alternative vision about language development and music involvement to the current scientific discourse. Her view is based on a rigorous evolutionary perspective, through which she not only demonstrates the hypothesis of vocal continuity with other species via morphological data but, more importantly, also demonstrates how music is first and foremost a biological and cognitive trait. The bond between animal and human communication is here interpreted as an interspecific universal with a clear evolutionary impact on the speech’s natural history. Such continuity does not undermine the species-specificity of our linguistic system and, at the same time, supports the theory according to which music had a clear evolutionary role in the inception of the prosodic and musical components of speech. In leaning towards a bio-naturalistic approach, the most convincing view is that of a vocal and functional continuity of music. This appears to be demonstrable through the evolutionary past of vocality in other animal species, not constrained from having some form of cultural transmission. The book evidences that the current research scenario on non-human animal communication benefits from the support of semiotics and, specifically, zoosemiotics. The latter approach enables us to interpret music and chant not only as a simple formal and meaningless exercise, but rather as a communicative element perceived and processed by organisms equipped with cognitive abilities. Anastasi argues that vocal continuity, made possible by biological constraints that mark its anatomical and physiological aspects, places human beings in a relationship of semiotic continuity with non-human communication forms. In turn, this enables us to better describe the phylogenetic processes which determined the development of musical behaviours in the Sapiens, as well as the way in which such behaviours interwove with the expressive vocality of the animal world.

Further Advances in Pragmatics and Philosophy: Part 2 Theories and Applications

Author : Alessandro Capone
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3030009734
Total Pages : 594 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Further Advances in Pragmatics and Philosophy: Part 2 Theories and Applications written by Alessandro Capone and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-02-13 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The two sections of this volume present theoretical developments and practical applicative papers respectively. Theoretical papers cover topics such as intercultural pragmatics, evolutionism, argumentation theory, pragmatics and law, the semantics/pragmatics debate, slurs, and more. The applied papers focus on topics such as pragmatic disorders, mapping places of origin, stance-taking, societal pragmatics, and cultural linguistics. This is the second volume of invited papers that were presented at the inaugural Pragmasofia conference in Palermo in 2016, and like its predecessor presents papers by well-known philosophers, linguists, and a semiotician. The papers present a wide variety of perspectives independent from any one school of thought.

Biolinguistics and Philosophy: Insights and Obstacles

Author : Elliot Murphy
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1291186778
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (911 download)

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Book Synopsis Biolinguistics and Philosophy: Insights and Obstacles by : Elliot Murphy

Download or read book Biolinguistics and Philosophy: Insights and Obstacles written by Elliot Murphy and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Cambridge Handbook of Biolinguistics

Author : Cedric Boeckx
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107354536
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Handbook of Biolinguistics written by Cedric Boeckx and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-02-14 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biolinguistics involves the study of language from a broad perspective that embraces natural sciences, helping us better to understand the fundamentals of the faculty of language. This Handbook offers the most comprehensive state-of-the-field survey of the subject available. A team of prominent scholars working in a variety of disciplines is brought together to examine language development, language evolution and neuroscience, as well as providing overviews of the conceptual landscape of the field. The Handbook includes work at the forefront of contemporary research devoted to the evidence for a language instinct, the critical period hypothesis, grammatical maturation, bilingualism, the relation between mind and brain and the role of natural selection in language evolution. It will be welcomed by graduate students and researchers in a wide range of disciplines, including linguistics, evolutionary biology and cognitive science.

Approaches to the Evolution of Language

Author : James R. Hurford
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521639644
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (396 download)

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Book Synopsis Approaches to the Evolution of Language by : James R. Hurford

Download or read book Approaches to the Evolution of Language written by James R. Hurford and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-09-17 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book considers language within the framework of modern evolutionary theory, emphasising its social bases.

Darwinism Tested by the Science of Language

Author : August Schleicher
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Darwinism Tested by the Science of Language written by August Schleicher and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Psychopathology and Philosophy of Mind

Author : Valentina Cardella
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000369161
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Psychopathology and Philosophy of Mind written by Valentina Cardella and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-03-30 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores how the human mind works through the lens of psychological disorders, challenging many existing theoretical constructs, especially in the fields of psychology, psychiatry and philosophy of mind. Drawing on the expertise of leading academics, the book discusses how psychopathology can be used to inform our understanding of the human mind. The book argues that studying mental disorders can deepen the understanding of psychological mechanisms such as reasoning, emotions, and beliefs alongside fundamental philosophical questions, including the nature of the self, the universal aspects of morality, and the role of rationality and normativity in human nature. By crossing different domains, this book offers a fresh perspective on the human mind based on the dialogue between philosophy, cognitive science and clinical psychology. Mental disorders discussed include schizophrenia, anxiety disorders, major depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder and paranoia. This book caters to the increasing interest in interdisciplinary approach to solving some of the problems in psychopathology. Since this book treats psychological engagement with empirically informed philosophy of mind, this book is essential reading for students and researchers of cognitive psychology, clinical psychology, and philosophy, as well as being of interest to clinicians and psychiatrists.

Grammaticalising the Perfect and Explanations of Language Change

Author : Bozhil Hristov
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004414053
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Grammaticalising the Perfect and Explanations of Language Change written by Bozhil Hristov and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-11-26 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Bozhil Hristov investigates the verbal systems of two distantly related Indo-European languages, highlighting similarities as well as crucial differences between them and seeking a unified approach.

Why Only Us

Author : Robert C. Berwick
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262533499
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (625 download)

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Download or read book Why Only Us written by Robert C. Berwick and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2017-05-12 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Berwick and Chomsky draw on recent developments in linguistic theory to offer an evolutionary account of language and humans' remarkable, species-specific ability to acquire it. “A loosely connected collection of four essays that will fascinate anyone interested in the extraordinary phenomenon of language.” —New York Review of Books We are born crying, but those cries signal the first stirring of language. Within a year or so, infants master the sound system of their language; a few years after that, they are engaging in conversations. This remarkable, species-specific ability to acquire any human language—“the language faculty”—raises important biological questions about language, including how it has evolved. This book by two distinguished scholars—a computer scientist and a linguist—addresses the enduring question of the evolution of language. Robert Berwick and Noam Chomsky explain that until recently the evolutionary question could not be properly posed, because we did not have a clear idea of how to define “language” and therefore what it was that had evolved. But since the Minimalist Program, developed by Chomsky and others, we know the key ingredients of language and can put together an account of the evolution of human language and what distinguishes us from all other animals. Berwick and Chomsky discuss the biolinguistic perspective on language, which views language as a particular object of the biological world; the computational efficiency of language as a system of thought and understanding; the tension between Darwin's idea of gradual change and our contemporary understanding about evolutionary change and language; and evidence from nonhuman animals, in particular vocal learning in songbirds.