Bio-linguistics : the Santa Barbara lectures /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
J. Benjamins Pub. Co.,
©2002.
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| Online Access: | http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=253335 |
Table of Contents:
- Language as a biological adaptation
- The bounds of generativity and the adaptive basis of variation
- The demise of competence
- Human language as an evolutionary product
- An evolutionary account of language processing rates
- The diachronic foundations of language universals
- The neuro-cognitive interpretation of "context" : anticipating other minds
- The grammar of the narrator's perspective in narrative fiction
- The society of intimates
- On the ontology of academic negativity.