Smith, N. V.

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.

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Language and languages.
Linguistics.
Ngôn ngữ học

P107 / .S65 2005

400 / SMI 2005