Components of the language-ready brain

• Autor principal: Antonio Benitez-Burraco (auth)
• Outros Autores: Cedric Boeckx (auth)
• Formato: Recurso Electrónico Capítulo de Livro
• Idioma: inglês
• Publicado em: Frontiers Media SA 2016
• Colecção: Frontiers Research Topics
• Assuntos: Psychology; globularization; phonology; brain oscillations; Brain asymmetry; language development; merge; Speech; Language production; language-readiness; temporal attention; Retinoic acid; Communication
• Acesso em linha: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Resumo

This volume highlights new avenues of research in the language sciences, and particularly, in the neurobiology of language. The term "language-ready brain" stresses, on the one hand, the importance of a brain-based description of our species' linguistic capacity, and, on the other, the need to appreciate the crucial role culture plays in shaping the linguistic systems children acquire and adults use. For this reason, the focus is not put on language per se, but on our learning biases and cognitive pre-dispositions toward language. Both brain and culture are considered at two crucial levels of inquiry: phylogeny and ontogeny. In a fast-growing field like the language sciences and specifically, language evolution studies, this book has tried to capture several of the most exciting topics explored currently, sowing seeds for future investigations.

Descrição Física

1 electronic resource (132 p.)

ISBN

978-2-88919-893-1
9782889198931

Acesso

Open Access