Language, frogs and savants : more linguistic problems, puzzles and polemics /
Language, frogs & savants
Neil Smith.
- Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2005.
- ix, 200 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [179]-194) and index.
Savants -- Singing by the dead -- Maganar Hannu -- Sneering at the arts -- Babes and sucklings -- Censored? -- Did you know that the Portuguese for turkey is peru? -- Obstinacy -- Backlash -- Is there a gene for linguists? -- Frogs, parrots, grooming, the basal ganglia, and language -- Parametric poverty -- Linguistics by numbers -- Modules, modals, maths, and the mind -- Nothing -- The -- Are gucks mentally represented? -- Wonder.