@article{1478560,
      author = {Lieberman, Philip, },
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1478560},
      title = {Human Language and Our Reptilian Brain : The Subcortical  Bases of Speech, Syntax, and Thought /},
      abstract = {This book is an entry into the fierce current debate among  psycholinguists, neuroscientists, and evolutionary  theorists about the nature and origins of human language. A  prominent neuroscientist here takes up the Darwinian case,  using data seldom considered by psycholinguists and  neurolinguists to argue that human language--though more  sophisticated than all other forms of animal  communication--is not a qualitatively different ability  from all forms of animal communication, does not require a  quantum evolutionary leap to explain it, and is not unified  in a single "language instinct." Using clinical evidence  from speech-impaired patients, functional neuroimaging, and  evolutionary biology to make his case, Philip Lieberman  contends that human language is not a single separate  module but a functional neurological system made up of many  separate abilities. Language remains as it began, Lieberman  argues: a device for coping with the world. But in a blow  to human narcissism, he makes the case that this most  remarkable human ability is a by-product of our remote  reptilian ancestors' abilities to dodge hazards, seize  opportunities, and live to see another day.},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674040229},
      recid = {1478560},
      pages = {1 online resource (240 p.)},
}