The Inheritance and Innateness of Grammars
Is language somehow innate in the structure of the human brain, or is it completely learned? This debate is still at the heart of linguistics, especially as it intersects with psychology and cognitive science. In collecting papers which discuss the evidence and arguments regarding this difficult question, The Inheritance and Innateness of Grammars considers cases ranging from infants who are just beginning to learn the properties of a native language to language-impaired adults who will never...
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Is language somehow innate in the structure of the human brain, or is it completely learned? This debate is still at the heart of linguistics, especially as it intersects with psychology and cognitive science. In collecting papers which discuss the evidence and arguments regarding this difficult question, The Inheritance and Innateness of Grammars considers cases ranging from infants who are just beginning to learn the properties of a native language to language-impaired adults who will never learn one. These studies show that, while precursors of language exist in other creatures, the abilities necessary for constructing full-fledged grammars are part of the biological endowment of human beings. The essays that comprise this volume test the range and specificity of that endowment, while also contributing to our understanding of the intricate and complex relationship between language and biology.
Contributors1Introduction32Evolution, Nativism and Learning in the Development of Language and Speech73In the Beginning: On the Genetic and Environmental Factors that Make Early Language Acquisition Possible454Exploring Innateness through Cultural and Linguistic Variation705Epidemiology of Specific Language Impairment916The Biological Basis of Language: Familial Language Impairment1117The Grammatical Agreement Deficit in Specific Language Impairment: Evidence from Therapy Experiments1418Specific Language Impairment, Cognition and the Biological Basis of Language1619Evolutionary Biology and the Evolution of Language18110A Neurobiological Approach to the Noninvariance Problem in Stop Consonant Categorization209
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