Music and the Origins of Language: Theories from the ...
 Author: Downing A. Thomas Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 401 EAN: 9780521028622 Edition: 1 ISBN: 0521028620 Number Of Pages: 207 Publication Date: 2006-11-02 [... more]
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Wild Child
Amazon.com Essential Video: François Truffaut's fascinating 1969 film, based on a real-life, 18th-century behavioral scientist's efforts to turn a feral boy into a civilized specimen, is an ingenious and poignant experience. In a piece of resonant [... more]
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Language and Myth
brilliant: This little book is a revelation in 99 pages. It is highly theoretical and while it is not an easy read it is not beyond the comprehension of a layperson either. Cassirer's arguments lead me to think about language and consciousness itself in [... more]
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Human Language and Our Reptilian Brain: The Subcortical ...
Original and provocative: A highly original and intriguing thesis on the evolution of brain and language. Lieberman traces the origins of language syntax computations to brain mechanisms evolved originally to cooridinate complex patterns of action. [... more]
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Symbolic Species
From Amazon.com: Terrence Deacon's The Symbolic Species begins with a question posed by a 7-year-old child: Why can't animals talk? Or, as Deacon puts it, if animals have simpler brains, why can't they develop a simpler form of language to go with them? [... more]
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The Dumb House
From Amazon.com: Reader beware: The Dumb House is not for the faint of heart. This debut novel by Scottish poet John Burnside is subtitled A Chamber Novel, but "Chamber of Horror" might better describe it. The central character and narrator is [... more]
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Running on Emptiness: The Pathology of Civilization
Walking the Talk: What a wonderful book! After reading it, I had so many question, I felt the need to talk with author in person. After tracking down his number, I gave him a call (noting how odd it was to be talking with an "anarcho-primitivist& [... more]
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The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language
Warmed-Over Chomskyite Baloney: Pinker knows a great deal that isn't so about language and human behavior, and misleads many people who mistake this mixture of fact, false knowledge and downright ignorance with science. For those with some curiosity, I [... more]
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The Essential Max Muller: On Language, Mythology and ...
An important scholar too oftened overlooked: All human knowledge, however antiquated, possesses some value for the present. True, such knowledge may not yield pure gold, but there might still be a few nuggets one can mine, specks of gold ore that can be [... more]
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Human Language and Our Reptilian Brain: The Subcortical ...
Original and provocative: A highly original and intriguing thesis on the evolution of brain and language. Lieberman traces the origins of language syntax computations to brain mechanisms evolved originally to cooridinate complex patterns of action. [... more]
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Origins of Language: Constraints on Hypotheses
Author: Sverker Johansson Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 401 EAN: 9789027238931 ISBN: 9027238936 Number Of Pages: 345 Publication Date: 2006-05-30 [... more]
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From Hand to Mouth: The Origins of Language
Quite interesting: It may seem unusual for a psychologist to publish a book on linguistics and the origins of human language, but Michael Corballis has produced an intriguing work full of speculation and theory. The author asks an essential question--why [... more]
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