Language in Our Brain: The Origins of a Uniquely Human Capacity
Angela D. Friederici
Abstract
The language faculty is grounded in the human brain and allows any infant to learn any language. In her book, Angela D. Friederici offers a neurobiological theory of human language by integrating data from adult language processing, language development and brain evolution across primates. Describing the brain basis of language in its functional and structural neuroanatomy as well as its neurodynamics, she argues that differences in the brain that are species-specific may be at the root of human language.
Keywords: language, brain, syntax, development, neurocognition, brain-function, brain-structure
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2017 | Print ISBN-13: 9780262036924 |
| Published to MIT Press Scholarship Online: May 2018 | DOI:10.7551/mitpress/9780262036924.001.0001 |
