The Boundaries of Babel: The Brain and the Enigma of Impossible Languages

by Andrea Moro

Book Overview

An exploration of what research at the intersection of contemporary theoretical linguistics and the cognitive neurosciences can reveal about the constraints on the apparently chaotic variation in human languages.

In The Boundaries of Babel, Andrea Moro tells the story of an encounter between two cultures: contemporary theoretical linguistics and the cognitive neurosciences. The study of language within a biological context has...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262134985
• ISBN13: 9780262134989
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 257 Pages
• Weight: 1.18 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher