Ascent of Babel An Exploration of Language, Mind, and Understanding

Name: Ascent of Babel An Exploration of Language, Mind, and Understanding
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ISBN: 9780198523772

ISBN-10: 0198523777

ISBN-13: 9780198523772

Edition: 1998

Authors: Gerry T. M. Altmann, Andrea Enzinger

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Language is one of the faculties that sets humans apart from animals, the crucial thing which makes our complex social interactions possible. The Ascent of Babel explores the ways in which the mind produces and understands language: the ways in which the sounds of language evoke meaning, and the ways in which the desire to communicate causes us to produce those sounds to begin with. The `ascent' symbolises different things: the progression from sound to meaning, the ascent that we each undergo, from birth onwards, as we learn our mother tongue, and the quest to understand the mental processes which underlie our use of language. Gerry Altmann leads the reader on this ascent - a fascinating…

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List price: $78.00
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 5/6/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.25" long x 0.63" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English



In the beginning



Looking towards Babel



Babies, birth, and language



Chinchillas do it too



Words, and what we learn to do with them



Organizing the dictionary



Words, and how we (eventually) find them



Time flies like an arrow



Who did what, and to whom?



On the meaning of meaning



Exercising the vocal organs



The written word



When it all goes wrong



Wiring-up a brain



The descent from Babel


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