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Summary
Summary
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.
Table of Contents
| 1 Introducing the volumeKleanthes K. Grohmann and Cedric Boeckx |
| 2 Biolinguistics âÇô a historical perspectiveLyle Jenkins |
| 3 Biolinguistics yesterday, today and tomorrowMassimo Piattelli-Palmarini |
| 4 The philosophical foundations of biolinguisticsJames McGilvray |
| Part I Language Development |
| 5 (Evidence for) the language instinct IanthiMaria Tsimpli |
| 6 Sensitive phases in successive language acquisition: the critical period hypothesis revisitedJÃ1/4rgen M. Meisel |
| 7 Discovering word forms and word meanings: the role of phrasal prosody and function wordsSÃ(c)verine Millotte and Elodie Cauvet and Perrine Brusini and Anne Christophe |
| 8 Luria's biolinguistic suggestion and the growth of languageKen Wexler |
| 9 Parameters in language acquisitionLisa Pearl and Jeffrey Lidz |
| 10 Bilingualism beyond language: on the impact of bilingualism on executive controlMireia HernÃíndez and Clara D. Martin and Núria SebastiÃín-GallÃ(c)s and Albert Costa |
| Part II Mind, Brain, Behavior |
| 11 The role of experimental syntax in an integrated cognitive science of languageJon Sprouse and Diogo Almeida |
| 12 Working memory and language processing: theory, data and directions for future researchMatthew W. Wagers and Brian McElree |
| 13 Computational primitives in phonology and their neural correlatesPhilip J. Monahan and Ellen F. Lau and William J. Idsardi |
| 14 Computational primitives in syntax and possible brain correlatesMatthias Schlesewsky and Ina Bornkessel-Schlesewsky |
| 15 Computational primitives in morphology and possible brain correlates InaBornkessel-Schlesewsky and Matthias Schlesewsky |
| 16 Grounding the cognitive neuroscience of semantics in linguistic theoryLiina PylkkÃñnen and Jonathan Brennan and Douglas Bemis |
| 17 Modularity and descent with modificationGary F. Marcus and Cristina D. Rabaglia and Hugh Rabagliati |
| 18 The role of Broca's area in language functionGregory Hickok |
| 19 Lexical retrieval and breakdown in aphasia and developmental language impairmentNaama Friedmann and Michal Biran and Dror Dotan |
| 20 Genetics of language: roots of specific language deficitsAntonio Benátez-Burraco |
| Part III Language Evolution |
| 21 The cognitive capacities of non-human primatesKlaus ZuberbÃ1/4hler |
| 22 Birdsong for biolinguisticsKazuo Okanoya |
| 23 Language, culture and computation: an adaptive systems approach to biolinguisticsSimon Kirby |
| 24 Language and natural selectionDerek Bickerton |
| 25 The fossils of language: what are they? who has them? how did they evolve?Sergio Balari and Antonio Benátez-Burraco and Váctor M. Longa and Guillermo Lorenzo |
