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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