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Introduction
1 The great automatic grammatizator
Need anything be innate?
2 Animals that try to talk
Is language restricted to humans?
3 Grandmama's teeth
Is there biological evidence for innate language capacity?
4 Predestinate grooves
Is there a pre-ordained language‘programme’?
5 A blueprint in the brain?
Could any grammatical information conceivably be innate?
6 Chattering children
Are children following ‘rules’when they learn to speak?
7 Puzzling it out
Exactly how do children learn language?
8 Celestial unintelligibility
Why do linguists propose such bizarre grammars?
9 The while elephant problem
Do we need a grammar in order to speak?
10 The Case of the missing fingerprint
How do we understand speech?
11 The Cheshire Cat's grin
How do we Plan and produce speech?
12 Banker's clerk or hippopotamus?
The future
suggestions for further reading
References
Index
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