TY - BOOK AU - Aitchison, Jean TI - The articulate mammal SN - 0091509211 (pbk) U1 - 401.9 PY - 1976/// CY - London PB - Hutchinson & Co Ltd. KW - Articulate--Mammal N1 - 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? ER -