HUMAN LANGUAGE AND OUR REPTILIAN BRAIN
The Subcortical Bases of Speech, Syntax and Thought
Philip Lieberman
Harvard University Press, 2001
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: Readers should know theories of the biological bases of human language--what makes human language unique, biologically. They should know the usual theory of language, following Noam Chomsky, as a "language acquisition device" hard-wired in the brain. They should learn Lieberman's theory that language is, instead, a functional system distributed throughout many parts of the brain. The evidence supporting this view should be learned from Parkinson's disease, subcortical lesions, Broca's aphasia, and the evolutionary bases of language.
Philip Lieberman is Fred Seed Professor of Cognitive Sciences and Anthropology at Brown University. He is the author of numerous scientific papers and of Eve Spoke: The Biology and Evolution of Language.
8 CE Credits; 221 pages
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