Ebook: Computational phenotypes : towards an evolutionary developmental biolinguistics
Author: Sergio Balari, Guillermo Lorenzo González
- Series: Oxford studies in biolinguistics
- Year: 2013
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
- City: Oxford
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This is a book about language as a species-typical trait of humans. It argues that language is not so exceptional after all, as according to the authors it is just the human version of a rather common and conservative organic system that they refer to as the Central Computational Complex.
Content: 1. The Pains of Being Owenians/Chomskyans/Cartesians at heart ; 2. My Beloved Monster ; 3. The Dead End of Communication ; 4. On True Homologues ; 5. Computational Homology ; 6. Introducing Computational Evo Devo ; 7. Other Minds ; 8. Conclusions ; Appendix ; References ; Index
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This book, written accessibly for both biologists and linguists, argues that language is not as exceptional a human trait as some linguists believe it to be. It is rather, according to the authors, Read more...
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