towards an evolutionary developmental biolinguistics /
Sergio Balari and Guillermo Lorenzo
1st ed
1 online resource (xiii, 239 pages) :
illustrations
Oxford studies in biolinguistics
Includes bibliographical references and index
""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""General Preface""; ""List of Figures""; ""List of Tables""; ""List of Abbreviations""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""1. Introduction: 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: On Complexity Issues""; ""References""; ""Index of Authors""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""
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