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The Cambridge Handbook of Biolinguistics
About this book
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.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introducing the volume
- 2 Biolinguistics: A historical perspective
- 3 Biolinguistics yesterday, today, and tomorrow
- 4 The philosophical foundations of biolinguistics
- Part I Language development
- 5 (Evidence for) the language instinct
- 6 Sensitive phases in successive language acquisition: The critical period hypothesis revisited
- 7 Discovering word forms and word meanings: The role of phrasal prosody and function words
- 8 Luria’s biolinguistic suggestion and the growth of language
- 9 Parameters in language acquisition
- 10 Bilingualism beyond language: On the impact of bilingualism on executive control
- Part II Mind, brain, behavior
- 11 The role of experimental syntax in an integrated cognitive science of language
- 12 Working memory and language processing: Theory, data, and directions for future research
- 13 Computational primitives in phonology and their neural correlates
- 14 Computational primitives in syntax and possible brain correlates
- 15 Computational primitives in morphology and possible brain correlates
- 16 Grounding the cognitive neuroscience of semantics in linguistic theory
- 17 Modularity and descent-with-modification
- 18 The role of Broca’s area in language function
- 19 Lexical retrieval and its breakdown in aphasia and developmental language impairment
- 20 Genetics of language: Roots of specific language deficits
- Part III Language evolution
- 21 The cognitive capacities of non-human primates
- 22 Birdsong for biolinguistics
- 23 Language, culture, and computation: An adaptive systems approach to biolinguistics
- 24 Language and natural selection
- 25 The fossils of language: What are they? Who has them? How did they evolve?
- Notes
- References
- Index