CALVIN, WILLIAM H. & BICKERTON, DEREK

Lingua ex machina. Reconciling Darwin and Chomsky with the human brain

The MIT Press, 2001. Paperback. Pp: 306. A machine for language? Certainly, say the neurophysiologists, busy studying the language specializations of the human brain and trying to identify their evolutionary antecedents. Linguists such as Noam Chomsky talk about machinelike "modules" in the brain for syntax, arguing that language is more an instinct (a complex behavior triggered by simple environmental stimuli) than an acquired skill like riding a bicycle.But structured language presents the same evolutionary problems as feathered forelimbs for flight: you need a lot of specializations to fly even a little bit. How do you get them, if evolution has no foresight and the intermediate stages do not have intermediate payoffs? Some say that the Darwinian scheme for gradual species self-improvement cannot explain our most valued human capability, the one that sets us so far above the apes, language itself.William Calvin and Derek Bickerton suggest that other evolutionary developments, not directly related to language, allowed language to evolve in a way that eventually promoted a Chomskian syntax. They compare these intermediate behaviors to the curb-cuts originally intended for wheelchair users. Their usefulness was soon discovered by users of strollers, shopping carts, rollerblades, and so on. The authors argue that reciprocal altruism and ballistic movement planning were "curb-cuts" that indirectly promoted the formation of structured language. Written in the form of a dialogue set in Bellagio, Italy, Lingua ex Machina presents an engaging challenge to those who view the human capacity for language as a winner-take-all war between Chomsky and Darwin. ISBN: 9780262531986. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.

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Book number: U704518

Catalogue: Filosofie

Keywords: 9780262531986

BICKERTON, DEREK

Bastard Tongues: A Trail-Blazing Linguist Finds Clues to Our Common Humanity in the World's Lowliest Languages

New York: Hill & Wang, 2008. 1st. hardcover. 8vo 270 pp.. Fine copy in fine dust jacket .

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Book number: BOOKS035710I

Catalogue: Language

BICKERTON, DEREK

Dynamics of a Creole System

GB, Cambridge University Press. 1975, 1st Edition. Hardback. VG+/VG DW.

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Book number: c160.014

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BICKERTON, DEREK.,

DYNAMICS OF A CREOLE SYSTEM..

Cambridge University, 1975. Hardcover, Very Good/ In Very Good Dustwrapper. Nice clean bright tight book in untorn dustwrapper.

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Book number: 537703

Keywords: Anthropology / Languages 052120514X

BICKERTON, DEREK

Dynamics of a creole system.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1975. viii, 224p, slightly worn dj. Based on the syntax of Guyana..

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Book number: 67262

Keywords: African American Latin America Linguistics Creole Guiana, Guyana

DEREK BICKERTON

King of the sea

Random House, 1979. Hardcover. Very Good. with Good dust jacket. Dust jacket shows edge rubbing, handling, some scuffing, and minor nicks, also price clipped. Ink stamp on front free end paper, remainder mark on bottom edge. ID: mon0000109795 .

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DEREK BICKERTON

Language and Human Behavior (Jessie and John Danz Lectures)

Univ of Washington Pr. Hardcover. 0295974575 Fine in Fine dust jacket. First edition.. Fine .

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BICKERTON, DEREK

Language and Human Behavior.

Washington UP, 1995. Large 8vo. ix,180p. Cloth/dustj. [The Jessie and John Danz Lectures].

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BICKERTON, DEREK,

Language and human Behavior..

Seatlle, University of Washignton Press, 1995. ix, 180p., dj.

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Book number: 017846

Keywords: Linguistics

BICKERTON, DEREK

Language and Human Behavior

Seattle: University of Washington Pre, 1995. 1st. hardcover. 8vo 180 pp.. Fine copy in fine dust jacket .

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Book number: BOOKS004727I

Catalogue: Psychology

BICKERTON, D.; BICKERTON, DEREK

Language And Human Behavior

Uitgever: University of Washington Press Jaar: 1996. Conditie Als nieuw Binding: Paperback hardcover ISBN 9780295974583

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Book number: 46176

Keywords: 9780295974583

BICKERTON, DEREK

Language and Human Behaviour

UK, UCL Press. 1996, First Edition. (ISBN: 1857285417). Ex Library, Very good clean copy, pages bright and tight. Very Good/Very Good.

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Book number: 216097

Catalogue: Psychiatry and Psychology

Keywords: 1857285417

BICKERTON, DEREK

Language and Human Behavior

Seattle, Univ. of Washington Press, (1995). orig.cloth. 24x15cm, (6),180 pp. Minor rubbing, VG. dustwrapper
¶ Contents: What Language Is; Language & Evolution; Language & Intelligence; Language & Consciousness; Conclusion; Appendix: Samples of Protolanguage.

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Book number: BOOKS005602I

Keywords: Psycholinguistics, Language, Psychology, Human Evolution, Linguistics, Behavior, Consciousness, , ,

BICKERTON, DEREK,

Language and Species.

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, [1990]. 1st Edition. [xii]+297+[3]pp. Orange and maroon cloth, silver spine lettering and orange endpapers. VG in DJ. ISBN: 0226046109. Binding: HB. Dustjacket: very good.

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Book number: 091406

Catalogue: Language

DEREK BICKERTON

Payroll

Eyre & Spottiswoode 1959 Hardcover. Ex Library. Foxing throughout. Fair.

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Book number: 424839

Catalogue: General

Keywords: "Fiction, Thriller"

BICKERTON, DEREK

Roots of Language.

Karoma Publishers Ann Arbor 1981 Cloth with dust jacket 351 S. Guter Zustand/ Good, Note of ownership., Dust jacket faded. hardcover with dustjacket.

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Book number: 407879

Catalogue: Sprachen-allgemein

Keywords: Sprachen-allgemein Sprachwissenschaften Linguistik Linguistic Science History Sprachforschung sprachwissenschaftliche Forschung Sprachgeschichte 0897200446

CALVIN, WILLIAM H. & BICKERTON, DEREK

Lingua ex machina. Reconciling Darwin and Chomsky with the human brain

The MIT Press, 2000. Hardcover. Pp: 298. A machine for language? Certainly, say the neurophysiologists, busy studying the language specializations of the human brain and trying to identify their evolutionary antecedents. Linguists such as Noam Chomsky talk about machinelike "modules" in the brain for syntax, arguing that language is more an instinct (a complex behavior triggered by simple environmental stimuli) than an acquired skill like riding a bicycle.But structured language presents the same evolutionary problems as feathered forelimbs for flight: you need a lot of specializations to fly even a little bit. How do you get them, if evolution has no foresight and the intermediate stages do not have intermediate payoffs? Some say that the Darwinian scheme for gradual species self-improvement cannot explain our most valued human capability, the one that sets us so far above the apes, language itself.William Calvin and Derek Bickerton suggest that other evolutionary developments, not directly related to language, allowed language to evolve in a way that eventually promoted a Chomskian syntax. They compare these intermediate behaviors to the curb-cuts originally intended for wheelchair users. Their usefulness was soon discovered by users of strollers, shopping carts, rollerblades, and so on. The authors argue that reciprocal altruism and ballistic movement planning were "curb-cuts" that indirectly promoted the formation of structured language. Written in the form of a dialogue set in Bellagio, Italy, Lingua ex Machina presents an engaging challenge to those who view the human capacity for language as a winner-take-all war between Chomsky and Darwin. ISBN: 9780262032735. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.

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Book number: U418079

Catalogue: Psychologie

Keywords: 9780262032735

CALVIN, WILLIAM H. & DEREK BICKERTON

Lingua Ex Machina Reconciling Darwin and Chomsky with the Human Brain

The MIT Press, 2001. trade paperback. ISBN: 0262531984. 0.86 x 8.2 x 5.22 Inches; 312 pages. Very Good+ .

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CALVIN, WILLIAM H & BICKERTON, DEREK

LINGUA EX MACHINA reconciling Darwin and Chomsky with the human brain

MIT Press, 2001 paperback, a very good copy, 298pp, ISBN:0262531984

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Book number: 130617

Keywords: science philosophy

CALVIN, WILLIAM H., AND BICKERTON, DEREK

Lingua ex Machina: Reconciling Darwin and Chomsky with the Human Brain

Cambridge, MA, MIT Press. 2000, First Edition, First Printing. (ISBN: 0262032732) Hard Cover with dust jacket, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Collectible, Cloth, 298 pp. illus. biblio. index; 24 cm. Tight, clean copy. Fine DJ. "A machine for language? Certainly, say the neurophysiologists, busy studying the language specializations of the human brain and trying to identify their evolutionary antecedents. Linguists such as Noam Chomsky talk about machinelike 'modules' in the brain for syntax, arguing that language is more an instinct (a complex behavior triggered by simple environmental stimuli) than an acquired skill like riding a bicycle. But structured language presents the same evolutionary problems as feathered forelimbs for flight: you need a lot of specializations to fly even a little bit. How do you get them, if evolution has no foresight and the intermediate stages do not have intermediate payoffs? Some say that the Darwinian scheme for gradual species self-improvement cannot explain our most valued human capability, the one that sets us so far above the apes, language itself. William Calvin and Derek Bickerton suggest that other evolutionary developments, not directly related to language, allowed language to evolve in a way that eventually promoted a Chomskian syntax. They compare these intermediate behaviors to the curb-cuts originally intended for wheelchair users. Their usefulness was soon discovered by users of strollers, shopping carts, rollerblades, and so on. The authors argue that reciprocal altruism and ballistic movement planning were 'curb-cuts' that indirectly promoted the formation of structured language. Written in the form of a dialogue set in Bellagio, Italy, Lingua ex Machina presents an engaging challenge to those who view the human capacity for language as a winner-take-all war between Chomsky and Darwin. / William H. Calvin is Affiliate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Washington, Seattle. His books include The Cerebral Code (MIT Press, 1996). Derek Bickerton is Professor of Linguistics, Emeritus, at the University of Hawaii, Honolulu. He is the author of Roots of Language, Language and Species, and Language and Human Behavior." - Publisher. Fine/Fine.

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CALVIN, WILLIAM H.;BICKERTON, DEREK

Lingua Ex Machina: Reconciling Darwin and Chomsky With the Human Brain

Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.A. Bradford Books. 2000, First Edition. (ISBN: 0262032732) Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

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Keywords: brain evolution neurolinguistics language 0262032732

CALVIN, WILLIAM H.; BICKERTON, DEREK

Lingua Ex Machina: Reconciling Darwin and Chomsky With the Human Brain

Cambridge, Massachusetts, Bradford Book/M.I.T. Press. 2000, First Printing. (ISBN: 0262032732). Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

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Book number: 04915

Catalogue: Philosophy

Keywords: Language Acquisition Syntax Evolution Darwin Chomsky 0262032732

CALVIN WILLIAM H. - DEREK BICKERTON :

Lingua ex Machina. Reconciling Darwin and Chomsky with the Human Brain.

Cambridge, Mass. / London, The MIT Press, 2000, in-8°, 298 pp, b/w ills, bibliography in the notes, index, publisher's cloth, dustwrapper, mint copy.. .

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Book number: 29418

CALVIN, WILLIAM H. ; & BICKERTON, DEREK

Lingua ex Machina: Reconciling Darwin and Chomsky with the Human Brain

Cambridge [MA], MIT Press, 2000. orig.cloth. 24x15cm, 298 pp. Minor rubbing. An ink mark to top page-edge. VG. dustwrapper.
¶ A machine for language? Certainly, say the neurophysiologists, busy studying the specializations of the human brain and trying to indentify their evolutionary antecedents. Linguists such as Noam Chomsky talk about machine-like "modules" in the brain for syntax, arguing that language is more an instinct (a complex behaviour triggered by simple environmental stimuli) than an acquired skill like riding a bicycle. But structured language presents the same evolutionary problems as feathered forelimbs for flight: you need a lot of specializations to fly even a little bit. How do you get them, if evolution has no foresight and the intermediate stages do not have intermediate payoffs? Some say that the Darwinian scheme for gradual species self-improvement cannot explain our most valued human capability, the one that sets us so far above the apes, language itself. William Calvin and Derek Bickerton suggest that other evolutionary developments, not directly related to language, allowed language to evolve in a way that eventually promoted a Chomskian syntax. They compare these intermediate behaviours to the curb-cuts originally intended for wheelchair users. Their usefulness was soon discovered by users of strollers, shopping carts, rollerblades and so on. The authors argue that reciprocal altruism and ballistic movement planning were "curb-cuts" that indirectly promoted the formation of structured language. Written in the form of a dialogue set in Bellagio, Italy, "Lingua ex Machina" presents an engaging challenge to those who view the human capacity for language as a

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