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EBOOK How the Brain Got Language:The Mirror System Hypothesis
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Wydawnictwo: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780199896691
EAN: D280194BEB
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Stron: 432
Data wydania: 2012
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Unlike any other species, humans can learn and use language. This book explains        how the brain evolved to make language possible, through what Michael Arbib calls        the Mirror System Hypothesis. Because of mirror neurons, monkeys, chimps, and humans        can learn by imitation, but only "e;complex imitation,"e; which humans exhibit, is        powerful enough to support the breakthrough to language. This theory provides a path        from the openness of manual gesture, which we share with nonhuman primates, through        the complex imitation of manual skills, pantomime, protosign (communication based on        conventionalized manual gestures), and finally to protospeech. The theory explains        why we humans are as capable of learning sign languages as we are of learning to        speak. This fascinating book shows how cultural evolution took over from biological        evolution for the transition from protolanguage to fully fledged languages. The        author explains how the brain mechanisms that made the original emergence of        languages possible, perhaps 100,000 years ago, are still operative today in the way        children acquire language, in the way that new sign languages have emerged in recent        decades, and in the historical processes of language change on a time scale from        decades to centuries. Though the subject is complex, this book is highly readable,        providing all the necessary background in primatology, neuroscience, and linguistics        to make the book accessible to a general audience.

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