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Language in Cognition: Uncovering Mental Structures and the Rules Behind Them

ISBN: 978-1-4051-5882-4
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264 pages
September 2009, ©2009, Wiley-Blackwell
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Acknowledgements

Prologue

Part I: Ever Since Chomsky

Chapter 1: Mind matters: Chomsky’s dangerous idea

Chapter 2: The mechanization of the mind picture

Chapter 3: How the mind grows: From Meno to Noam

Part II: Unweaving the sentence

Chapter 4: Mental chemistry

Chapter 5: The variety of linguistic experience: The towers of Babel and Pisa

Chapter 6: All the roads lead to Universal Grammar

Part III: The mental foundations of behavior

Chapter 7: Making sense of meaning: An instruction manual

Chapter 8: Wonderful mental life: Unthinkable in the absence of Language

Chapter 9: Grammar caught in the act

Part IV: Missing links

Chapter 10: The (mis)measure of mind

Chapter 11: Homo combinans

Chapter 12: Computational organology

Epilogue

Notes

Study guide

References

Index

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