01887cam a22002778i 450000100090000000300040000900500170001300800410003001000170007102000310008804000230011904200080014208200290015010000350017924500920021426300090030626400840031530000410039933600260044033700280046633800270049450400510052150506380057252003590121065000400156923174026OSt20240730175121.0230606s2023    enk      b    001 0 eng    a  2023016882  a9781108456494q(paperback)  aDLCbengerdacDLC  apcc00a410 HUL223/eng/202306291 aHulst, Harry van der,eauthor.12aA mind for language :ban introduction to the innateness debate /cHarry van der Hulst.  a2308 1aCambridge, United Kingdom ;aNew York, NY :bCambridge University Press,c2023.  ax, 583 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm  atextbtxt2rdacontent  aunmediatedbn2rdamedia  avolumebnc2rdacarrier  aIncludes bibliographical references and index.  aI. Introduction; 1. What this book is about; II. The never-ending debate; 2. The innateness hypothesis; 3. Philosophy of mind; 4. Cognitive science; 5. Modularity; III. The mental grammar, language universals and language change; 6. The organization of the mental grammar; 7. Language universals; 8. Language change; IV. Language acquisition; 9. Language acquisition: the road from input to mental grammar; 10. Stages of language acquisition; 11. Critical period effects; 12. How children create new languages; V. Language in a different modality; 13. Sign languages; VI. Winding up; 14. Evaluating the arguments: a forum discussion.  a"Illustrated with real-life examples throughout, this book provides a complete introduction to one of the most fundamental question about what it means to be human: how does human language arise in the mind? Theory is explained in an easy-to-understand way, making it accessible for students without a background in linguistics"--cProvided by publisher. 0aInnateness hypothesis (Linguistics)