The Language Organ: Linguistics as Cognitive Physiology

by Stephen R. Anderson and David Lightfoot

Book Overview

The Language Organ treats human language as the manifestation of a faculty of the mind, a mental organ whose nature is determined by human biology and whose functional properties should be explored just as physiology explores the functional properties of physical organs. It surveys the nature of the language faculty in its various aspects: the systems of sounds, words, and syntax, the development of language in the child and historically, and what...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521007836
• ISBN13: 9780521007832
• Release Date: September 2002
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 284 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"