TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hulst,Harry van der
TI  - A mind for language: an introduction to the innateness debate 
SN  - 9781108456494
AV  - P37.5.I55 H85 2023
U1  - 410 23/eng/20230629
PY  - 2023///
CY  - Cambridge, United Kingdom, New York, NY
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Innateness hypothesis (Linguistics)
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Part I. Introduction -- What this book is about -- Part II. The never-ending debate -- The innateness hypothesis -- Philosophy of mind -- Cognitive science -- Modularity -- Part III. The mental grammar, language universals, and language change -- The organization of the mental grammar -- Language Universals -- Language change -- Part IV. Language acquisition -- Language acquisition: the road from input to mental grammar -- The stages of language acquisition -- Critical period effects -- How children create new languages -- Part V. Language in a different modality -- Sign languages -- Part VI. Winding up -- Evaluating the arguments: a forum discussion
N2  - "Illustrated with real-life examples throughout, this book provides a complete introduction to one of the most fundamental question about what it means to be human: how does human language arise in the mind? Theory is explained in an easy-to-understand way, making it accessible for students without a background in linguistics"--
ER  -