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Language, frogs and savants : more linguistic problems, puzzles and polemics /
- Title
- Language, frogs and savants : more linguistic problems, puzzles and polemics / Neil Smith.
- Author
- Smith, N. V. (Neilson Voyne)
- Publication
- Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2005.
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- Description
- ix, 200 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
- Alternative Title
- Language, frogs & savants
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [179]-194) and index.
- Contents
- 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.
- ISBN
- 1405130377 (hard cover : alk. paper)
- 1405130385 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2005009256
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library