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Language, Mind and Brain: Some Psychological and Neurological Constraints on Theories of Grammar

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Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2004. — 258 pages. — ISBN 0 7486 1474 5 (hardback) ISBN 0 7486 1472 3 (paperback)Language, Mind and Brain explores how properties of the human mind/brain constrain linguistic structure and how linguistics can benefit by combining traditional linguistic methodologies with insights from research on language acquisition, processing, and impairment. The first part of the book offers a useful introduction to the relevant issues for readers with little prior knowledge of these disciplines; part two addresses such key issues as the status of rules, the relationship between grammar and the lexicon, and the relationship between innate structure and acquired knowledge.

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