Foundations of Language: Brain, Meaning, Grammar, Evolution
“little person in the brain”who (to use the ter mof Dennett 1991) sits in the“Cartesian theater”watching the show. “Representati ...
Our revised construal of Fig. 1.1 is therefore that it models a cognitivestructure in the mind of a speaker. But there is still ...
are speaking in functional terms—in terms of the logical organization of the task the computer is performing. In physical (hardw ...
Even with these understandings of the relation between functional organization and neural instantiation, there has been a concer ...
neural substrate. And noone(Ithink) denies theimportance ofunderstandinghowtheneurons managetoaccomplish language comprehension ...
For instance, the notationbencodes a position in the subspace of“phoneme choice”; in turn, the phonological distinctive feature ...
They appear to have sharp categorial distinctions because there are loci of relative stability within a dimension of variation. ...
will ultimately be of greatest value for the investigation of neurophysiological mechanisms, since they alone are concerned with ...
Thus it does not see mto me quite accurate to take“knowledge of English”to be a capacity or ability, though it enters intothe ca ...
may mean that one cannotexercisethat ability, but, whatever Rylemay have thought, theunderlyingcognitive capacity neednotdissolv ...
Chomsky makes the competence-performance distinction in part to ward off alternative proposals for how linguistics must be studi ...
modelsa cognitive structure inthef-mind ofsomeonewho either hears or speaks thesentenceThe little star's beside a big star. A he ...
(3b) is the well-known case of a doubly center-embedded sentence. A language that allows nouns to be freely modified by relative ...
It is interesting how thecompetence–performance distinctionhas been misunderstoodin theliterature. For instance, a 1984 edited v ...
developed in Part II maintains the competence-performance distinction but lends itself better to integration with performance th ...
matters of“performance”, for example hesitations, repairs, and interjectedumandlikeare often metalinguistic signals designed to ...
genetically identical; and cases sometimes arise where what is apparently one species shades off imperceptibly over some geograp ...
change in language. As I understand the functionalist school of grammar (e.g. Bates and MacWhinney 1982, Givón 1995), much of li ...
CHAPTER 3 Combinatoriality 3.1 The need for an f-mental grammar From the standpoint of communication systems in the natural worl ...
f. I wonder if Susan knows that Fred assured Lois that Clark would remind Pat to buy food for dinner. g. We havea youngchildand ...
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