《How the Brain Evolved Language》是2002年2月28日由Oxford University Press, USA出版社出版的圖書，作者是Donald Loritz。
基本介紹
- 中文名：How the Brain Evolved Language
- 作者：Donald Loritz
- 出版社：Oxford University Press, USA
- 出版時間：2002年2月28日
- 頁數：238 頁
- 定價：45.00 美元
- 裝幀：Paperback
- ISBN：9780195151244
內容簡介
How can an infinite number of sentences be generated from one human mind? How did language evolve in apes? In this book Donald Loritz addresses these and other fundamental and vexing questions about language, cognition, and the human brain. He starts by tracing how evolution and natural adaptation selected certain features of the brain to perform communication functions, then shows how those features developed into designs for human language. The result - what Loritz calls an adaptive grammar - gives a unified explanation of language in the brain and contradicts directly (and controversially) the theory of innateness proposed by, among others, Chomsky and Pinker.
