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April 2007
6 x 9, 372 pp., 50 illus.
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ISBN-10:
0-262-18252-1
ISBN-13:
978-0-262-18252-2

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The Prism of Grammar
How Child Language Illuminates Humanism
Tom Roeper

Foreword by Samuel Jay Keyser
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Preface
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Gratitudexiii
IGoals and Grand Perspectives1
1Setting the Stage
Animating Ideas, Ambitious Goals, and Ardent Commitments
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2Grammar's Gift to Our Image of Human Nature19
IIWhy Language Acquisition Is a Challenge to the Child31
3First Words
Glimpses of the Mind		33
4First Phrases
Glimpses of Grammar		49
5The Absence of Absolute Reference63
6The Heartbeat of Grammar
Recursion		105
7The Structure of Silence127
8The Pantheon of Plurals
From Possible Worlds to the Ethics of Our World		159
IIIMicrodialects and Language Diversity199
9Language Variation
Emotion Overtakes Structure		201
10Are We All Bilingual?211
11The Riches of African-American English227
IVFinding Philosophy and Morality in Every Sentence241
12Philosophical Consequences
The Path from Mathematics to Human Dignity		243
13False False Belief Belief and True False Belief Belief255
14The Ideas behind the Concept of "Idea"281
15In Defense of Dignity293
Afterword305
Notes307
References323
Explorations337
Index
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