What is it about the human mind that accounts for the fact that we can all speak and understand a language? Why can't other creatures do the same? And what does this tell us about the rest of human abilities? Recent dramatic discoveries in linguistics and psychology provide intriguing answers to these age-old mysteries. Along with the stunning advances in neuro-science and artificial intelligence, this research has breathed new life into the study of the mind. The central idea of this book is that our language ability is stored in the brain as a set of unconscious patterns, or a "mental…
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PsycholinguisticsInnateness hypothesis (Linguistics)Philosophy of mindLanguage acquisitionPsicolingüísticaFilosofía de la menteAdquisición del lenguajeFiction, general
A Generative theory of tonal music
