The Cambridge Handbook of Biolinguistics (Cambridge Handbooks in Language and Linguistics)

Cambridge University Press
Edition: Reprint, 3/15/2018
EAN 9781108454100, ISBN10: 1108454100

Paperback, 694 pages, 24.4 x 17 x 4 cm
Language: English
Originally published in English

Biolinguistics involves the study of language from a broad perspective that embraces natural sciences, helping us better to understand the fundamentals of the faculty of language. This Handbook offers the most comprehensive state-of-the-field survey of the subject available. A team of prominent scholars working in a variety of disciplines is brought together to examine language development, language evolution and neuroscience, as well as providing overviews of the conceptual landscape of the field. The Handbook includes work at the forefront of contemporary research devoted to the evidence for a language instinct, the critical period hypothesis, grammatical maturation, bilingualism, the relation between mind and brain, and the role of natural selection in language evolution. It will be welcomed by graduate students and researchers in a wide range of disciplines, including linguistics, evolutionary biology and cognitive science.

1. Introducing the volume Kleanthes K. Grohmann and Cedric Boeckx
2. Biolinguistics – a historical perspective Lyle Jenkins
3. Biolinguistics yesterday, today and tomorrow Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini
4. The philosophical foundations of biolinguistics James McGilvray
Part I. Language Development
5. (Evidence for) the language instinct Ianthi Maria Tsimpli
6. Sensitive phases in successive language acquisition
the critical period hypothesis revisited Jürgen M. Meisel
7. Discovering word forms and word meanings
the role of phrasal prosody and function words Séverine Millotte, Elodie Cauvet, Perrine Brusini and Anne Christophe
8. Luria's biolinguistic suggestion and the growth of language Ken Wexler
9. Parameters in language acquisition Lisa Pearl and Jeffrey Lidz
10. Bilingualism beyond language
on the impact of bilingualism on executive control Mireia Hernández, Clara D. Martin, Núria Sebastián-Gallés and Albert Costa
Part II. Mind, Brain, Behavior
11. The role of experimental syntax in an integrated cognitive science of language Jon Sprouse and Diogo Almeida
12. Working memory and language processing
theory, data and directions for future research Matthew Wagers and Brian McElree
13. Computational primitives in phonology and their neural correlates Philip J. Monahan, Ellen F. Lau and William J. Idsardi
14. Computational primitives in syntax and possible brain correlates Matthias Schlesewsky and Ina Bornkessel-Schlesewsky
15. Computational primitives in morphology and possible brain correlates Ina Bornkessel-Schlesewsky and Matthias Schlesewsky
16. Grounding the cognitive neuroscience of semantics in linguistic theory Liina Pylkkänen, Jonathan Brennan and Douglas Bemis
17. Modularity and descent with modification Gary F. Marcus, Cristina D. Rabaglia and Hugh Rabagliati
18. The role of Broca's area in language function Gregory Hickok
19. Lexical retrieval and breakdown in aphasia and developmental language impairment Naama Friedmann, Michal Biran and Dror Dotan
20. Genetics of language
roots of specific language deficits Antonio Benítez-Burraco
Part III. Language Evolution
21. The cognitive capacities of non-human primates Klaus Zuberbühler
22. Birdsong for biolinguistics Kazuo Okanoya
23. Language, culture and computation
an adaptive systems approach to biolinguistics Simon Kirby
24. Language and natural selection Derek Bickerton
25. The fossils of language
what are they? Who has them? How did they evolve? Sergio Balari, Antonio Benítez-Burraco, Víctor M. Longa and Guillermo Lorenzo.