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Patterns in the Mind - by Ray S Jackendoff (Paperback)

Patterns in the Mind - by  Ray S Jackendoff (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>What is it about the human mind that accounts for the fact that we can speak and understand a language? Why can't other creatures do the same? And what does this tell us about the rest of human abilit<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>What is it about the human mind that accounts for the fact that we can 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. In this fascinating book, Ray Jackendoff emphasizes the grammatical commonalities across languages, both spoken and signed, and discusses the implications for our understanding of language acquisition and loss.<p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br>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 a human abilities? Recent dramatic discoveries in linguistics and psychology provide intriguing answers to these age-old mysteries. In this fascinating book, Ray Jackendoff emphasizes the grammatical commonalities across languages, both spoken and signed, and discusses the implications for our understanding of language acquisition and loss.<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Ray Jackendoff, </b> linguist and theoretical psychologist, is professor of linguistics at Brandeis University. He is the author of several books, including <i>Semantic Interpretation in Generative Grammar</i>, <i>Semantics and Cognition</i>, <i> Consciousness and the Computational Mind</i>, and <i>Semantic Structures</i>.

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