TY - BOOK AU - Calvin,William H. AU - Bickerton,Derek TI - Lingua ex machina: reconciling Darwin and Chomsky with the human brain SN - 9780262531986 AV - QP399 .C35 2001 PY - 2001/// CY - Cambridge, Massachusetts PB - The MIT Press KW - Chomsky, Noam. KW - Darwin, Charles, KW - Brain KW - Evolution KW - Neurolinguistics N1 - "A Bradford book."; Originally published: 2000; Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-280) and index; The Villa Serbelloni -- What are words? -- Why putting words together isn't easy -- Bigger than a word, smaller than a sentence -- Language in the brain -- How are memories stored? -- Hexagonal mosaics and Darwin machines -- A common code: the brain's "Esperanto" problem -- Protolanguage emerging -- Reciprocal altruism as the predecessor of argument structure -- Role links for words -- The word tree as a secondary use of throwing's segmented movement planner -- Corticocortical coherence promotes a many-voiced symphonic sentence -- The pump and the slingshot -- Darwin and Chomsky together at last N2 - This book presents an engaging challenge to those who view the human capacity for language as a winner-take-all war between Chomsky and Darwin ER -