Aitchison, Jean
The articulate mammal
/ Jean Aitchison
- 2nd Ed.
- London: Hutchinson & Co Ltd., 1976
- 291 p.
1 The great automatic grammatizator
Need anything be innate?
2 Animals that try to talk
Is language restricted to humans?
3 Grandmama's teeth
Is there biological evidence for innate language capacity?
4 Predestinate grooves
Is there a pre-ordained language 'programme'?
5 The blueprint in the brain
What grammatical information might conveivably be innate?
6 Chattering children
Are children following 'rules' when they learn to speak?
7 Puzzling it out
Exactly how do children learn language?
8 Celestial unintelligibility
Why propose a transformational grammar?
9 The white elephant problem
Do we need a transformational grammar in order to speak?
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