Foundations of Language: Brain, Meaning, Grammar, Evolution

Rather, modules areimplicitlydifferentiated, by what formats of cognitive structure theyaccess and derive. Such a view of modula ...

Marslen-Wilsonand Tyler 1987; Tanenhaus et al. 1995) has beenabout therelationbetween syntax and semantics—in particular, whethe ...

structure in terms of which rules of inference and/or meaning postulates are stated, and in terms of which judgments of truth ar ...

processor needs to know that theindividual denotedby thisNP plays a certainthematicrole (say Patient)in theaction denoted by thi ...

auditory–phonetic interface is only one of several specialized interfaces that take auditory signals as input. Each of these int ...

presented mismatch. In other words, the visual input actually overrides the acoustics. In more ecologically realistic situations ...

other interfaces we have seen, reading implements a partial homology between its input and output structures.^115 Sign language ...

hand, where do they come from? Do all these pathways of informationflow, complete with all their constraints, have to be innate? ...

theear,and ofcourse thevisual syste mand auditory localization.Theresultis a unified sensationofbody positionand orientation, wh ...

For a far more distant case, someone's hair color canaffect conceptual structure through the spatial–conceptual interface, and, ...

load in thesame domain? Can these stages be identified with discretelevelsof structure in theformal theory? To what extent can t ...

CHAPTER 8 An Evolutionar yPerspective on the Architecture 8.1 The dialectic We now return to an important aspect of the hypothes ...

participate in the conversation, if only to maintain a position in this intellectual niche that is of such commanding interest t ...

none of the mhas anythinglike the expressive capacity of hu man language (Hauser 1996). They consist either of s mall collection ...

possible alternative to natural selection,“principles of neural organization that may be even more deeply grounded in physical l ...

advantages of human language are just the kind of cognitive phenomenon that natural selection is sensitive to. Therefore our bes ...

takes a more gradualist position). Nevertheless, his insight is the opening wedge in conceiving of a more graceful incremental e ...

AlongwithPinkerand Bloom(1990), Iassumethatthecomplexityand specializationof language precludesit being simply a natural develo ...

Fig. 8.1 Summary of incremental evolutionary steps organizedbehavioristherefore poised toinventsyntax(seediscussionbyBloom1994a) ...

However, primates are strictlylimitedin thesorts ofinformationtheycan communicate.^120 Themost important step in getting human l ...