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100 1 _aHulst, Harry van der,
_eauthor.
245 1 2 _aA mind for language :
_ban introduction to the innateness debate /
_cHarry van der Hulst.
263 _a2308
264 1 _aCambridge, United Kingdom ;
_aNew York, NY :
_bCambridge University Press,
_c2023.
300 _ax, 583 pages ;
_c23 cm.
336 _atext
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337 _aunmediated
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_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
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504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 _aPart 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.
520 _a"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"--
_cProvided by publisher.
650 0 _aInnateness hypothesis (Linguistics).
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