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Author:   Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini (, University of Arizona) ,  Juan Uriagereka (, University of Maryland) ,  Pello Salaburu (, University of the Basque Country)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 17.00cm , Height: 2.70cm , Length: 24.50cm
Weight:   0.846kg
ISBN:  

9780199544677

ISBN 10:   0199544670
Pages:   480
Publication Date:   07 October 2010
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1: Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini, Pello Salaburu, and Juan Uriagereka: Introduction Part 1: Overtures 2: Noam Chomsky: Opening Remarks 3: Cedric Boeckx: The Nature of Merge: Consequences for Language, Mind, and Biology 4: C. R. Gallistel: The Foundational Abstractions 5: Marc D. Hauser: Evolingo: The Nature of the Language Faculty 6: Gabriel Dover: Pointers to a Biology of Language? 7: Donata Vercelli: Language in an Epigenetic Framework 8: Christopher Cherniak: Brain Wiring Optimization and Non-Genomic Nativism Part 2: On Language 9: Wolfram Hinzen: Hierarchy, Merge, and Truth 10: James Higginbotham: Two Interfaces 11: Luigi Rizzi: Movement and Concepts of Locality 12: Juan Uriagereka: Uninterpretable Features in Syntactic Evolution 13: Angela D. Friederici: The Brain Differentiates Hierarchical and Probabilistic Grammars 14: Cedric Boeckz, Janet Dean Fodor, Lila Gleitman, Luigi Rizzi: Round Table: Language Universals: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow Part 3: On Acquisition 15: Rochel Gelman: Innate Learning and Beyond 16: Lila Gleitman: The Learned Component of Language Learning 17: Janet Dean Fodor: Syntactic Acquisition: An Evaluation Measure After All? 18: Thomas G. Bever: Remarks on the Individual Basis for Linguistic Structures Part 4: Open Talks on Open Inquiries 19: Marc D. Hauser: The Illusion of Biological Variation: A Minimalist Approach to the Mind 20: Itziar Laka: What is There in Universal Grammar? On Innate and Specific Aspects of Language 21: Núria Sebastián-Gallés: Individual Differences in Foreigh Sound Perception 22: Angela D. Friederici: Language and the Brain 23: Noam Chomsky: Conclusion References Index

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<br> The sheer empirical reach of the book makes it essential reading.... --David Kirkby, University of Durham<p><br> The book is well organized, with the chapters unified into thematic sections, and not presented in the order in which the talks were given at the conference. Each talk was followed by a short discussion -- also presented in the book, which gives the reader an opportunity to learn about the interests and opinions of the audience...readers will enjoy this remarkable book. --Linguist List<p><br>

Author Information

Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini is Professor of Cognitive Science at the University of Arizona. He has held teaching and research positions at the Scientific Institute San Raffaele, MIT, the Collège de France, Rutgers University, Harvard University, the University of Maryland and the University of Bologna. His publications include Inevitable Illusions: How Mistakes of Reason Rule our Minds (Wiley 2004), Choix, décisions et préférences: Quatre leçons au Collège de France (Odile Jacob, Paris (2006), L'illusione di sapere, and L'arte di persuadere (Mondadori 1993, 1995). Pello Salaburu is Professor of Basque Philology at the University of the Basque Country where he was President 1996-2000 and Vice President 1992-1996. He is Chair of the Grammar Commission of Euskaltzaindia (Royal Academy of the Basque Language), and a co-editor and co-author of Euskal Gramatika. Lehen Urratsak (seven volumes: 1985-2008). Juan Uriagereka is Professor of Linguistics, University of Maryland. His books include Syntactic Anchors (CUP 2006), Derivations (Routledge, 2002) and Rhyme and Reason (MIT Press 1998).

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