Language Unlimited: The Science Behind Our Most Creative Power by Adger, David
Language Unlimited: The Science Behind Our Most Creative Power by Adger, David

Language Unlimited: The Science Behind Our Most Creative Power

All humans, but no other species, have the capacity to create and understand language. It provides structure...
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Author: David Adger
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Language Unlimited: The Science Behind Our Most Creative Power by Adger, David

Language Unlimited: The Science Behind Our Most Creative Power

CHF 39.48
Language Unlimited: The Science Behind Our Most Creative Power by Adger, David

Language Unlimited: The Science Behind Our Most Creative Power

CHF 39.48
Author: David Adger
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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All humans, but no other species, have the capacity to create and understand language. It provides structure to our thoughts, allowing us to plan, communicate, and create new ideas, without limit. Yet we have only finite experiences, and our languages have finite stores of words. Where does our linguistic creativity come from? How does the endless scope of language emerge from our limited selves?

Drawing on research from neuroscience, psychology, and linguistics, David Adger takes the reader on a journey to the hidden structure behind all we say (or sign) and understand. Along the way you'll meet children who created language out of almost nothing, and find out how new languages emerge using structures found in languages spoken continents away. David Adger will show you how the more than 7000 languages in the world appear to obey the same deep scientific laws, how to invent a language that breaks these, and how our brains go crazy when we try to learn languages that just aren't possible. You'll discover why rats are better than we are at picking up certain language patterns, why apes are far worse at others, and how artificial intelligences, such as those behind Alexa and Siri, understand language in a very un-human way.

Language Unlimited explores the many mysteries about our capacity for language and reveals the source of its endless creativity.


Author: David Adger
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 10/01/2019
Pages: 272
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.30w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9780198828099


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About the Author

David Adger is Professor of Linguistics at Queen Mary University of London, current President of the Linguistics Association of Great Britain, and inventor of the monsters' language for the ITV series Beowulf. His research has been reported on in New Scientist and The Conversation, and he has
appeared on Sky News, BBC Radio 4, and Australia's DriveTime. His 25 years of teaching have taken him all over the world, including to the foothills of the Himalayas.


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