The Language Organ: Linguistics as Cognitive Physiology

This study treats human language as the manifestation of a faculty of the mind, which is seen as a mental organ whose nature is determined by human biology and whose functional properties should be explored as physiology explores the functional properties of physical organs. The book surveys the nature of the language faculty in its various aspects: the systems of sounds, words, and syntax, the development of language in the child and historically, what is known about its relation to the brain.

Author: Stephen R. Anderson, David W. Lightfoot
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 09/23/2002
Pages: 284
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.03lbs
Size: 8.94h x 6.04w x 0.69d
ISBN: 9780521007832

About the Author
Anderson, Stephen R.: - Stephen R. Anderson is Professor of Linguistics and Cognitive Science at Yale University. He is the author of The Organization of Phonology (1974), Phonology in the Twentieth Century (1985), and A-Morphous Morphology (Cambridge, 1992).Lightfoot, David W.: - David W. Lightfoot is Dean of the Graduate School, Georgetown University. He is the author of eight books, including The Development of Language (1999).

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