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Noam Chomsky, Angela D. Friederici
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Language in Our Brain
The Origins of a Uniquely Human Capacity
Mitarbeit: Chomsky, Noam
2017. 304 S. 61 col ill. 185 mm
Verlag/Jahr: MIT PRESS 2017
ISBN: 0-262-03692-4 (0262036924)
Neue ISBN: 978-0-262-03692-4 (9780262036924)
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Language makes us human. It is an intrinsic part of us, although we seldom think about it. Language is also an extremely complex entity with subcomponents responsible for its phonological, syntactic, and semantic aspects. In this landmark work, Angela Friederici offers a comprehensive account of these subcomponents and how they are integrated. Tracing the neurobiological basis of language across brain regions in humans and other primate species, she argues that species-specific brain differences may be at the root of the human capacity for language. Friederici describes the basic language functions and their brain basis; the language networks connecting different language-related brain regions; the brain basis of language acquisition during early childhood and when learning a second language, proposing a neurocognitive model of the ontogeny of language; and the evolution of language and underlying neural constraints. She finds that it is the information exchange between the relevant brain regions, supported by the white matter tract, that is the crucial factor in both language development and evolution.
Angela D. Friederici is Vice President of the Max Planck Society and Director of the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig.