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MIT Press
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Cambridge, Mass

Table of Contents

Syntax for non-syntacticians : a brief primer / Derek Bickerton
The biological background of syntax evolution / Anna Fedor, Péter Ittzés, and Eörs Szathmáry
Functional neuroimaging and the logic of brain operations : methodologies, caveats, and fundamental examples from language research / Balázs Gulyás
Some elements of syntactic computations / Luigi Rizzi
The adaptive approach to grammar / T. Givón
Fundamental syntactic phenomena and their putative relation to the brain / Edith Kaan
What kinds of syntactic phenomena must biologists, neurobiologists, and computer scientists try to explain and replicate? / Maggie Tallerman ... [et al.]
Possible precursors of syntactic components in other species / Austin T. Hilliard and Stephanie A. White
What can developmental language impairment tell us about the genetic bases of syntax? / Dorothy V.M. Bishop
What are the possible biological and genetic foundations for syntactic phenomena? / Szabolcs Számadó ... [et al.]
Brain circuits of syntax / Angela D. Friederici
Neural organization for syntactic processing as determined by effects of lesions : logic, data, and difficult questions / David Caplan
Reflections on the neurobiology of syntax / Peter Hagoort
What are the brain mechanisms underlying syntactic operations? / Anna Fedor ... [et al.]
Syntax as an adaptation to the learner / Simon Kirby, Morten H. Christiansen, and Nick Chater
Cognition and social dynamics play a major role in the formation of grammar / Luc Steels
What can formal or computational models tell us about how (much) language shaped the brain? / Ted Briscoe
What can mathematical, computational, and robotic models tell us about the origin of syntax? / Herbert Jaeger ... [et al.].

Edition Notes

Forum held July 13-18, 2008, in Frankfurt, Germany.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Series
Strüngmann Forum reports, Strüngmann Forum reports
Genre
Congresses

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
612.8/2336
Library of Congress
P291 .E75 2008, P291.E75 2008, P291 .E75 2009

The Physical Object

Pagination
xviii, 471 p. :
Number of pages
471

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Open Library
OL23971250M
Internet Archive
biologicalfounda0000erns
ISBN 10
0262013568
ISBN 13
9780262013567
LCCN
2009023478
OCLC/WorldCat
319498123

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