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Language, frogs and savants : more linguistic problems, puzzles and polemics /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Smith, N. V. (Neilson Voyne)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2005.
Subjects:
Language and languages.
Linguistics.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Savants
  • Singing by the dead
  • Maganar Hannu
  • Sneering at the arts
  • Babes and sucklings
  • Censored?
  • Did you know that the Portuguese for turkey is peru?
  • Obstinacy
  • Backlash
  • Is there a gene for linguists?
  • Frogs, parrots, grooming, the basal ganglia, and language
  • Parametric poverty
  • Linguistics by numbers
  • Modules, modals, maths, and the mind
  • Nothing
  • The
  • Are gucks mentally represented?
  • Wonder.