Foundations of Language: Brain, Meaning, Grammar, Evolution
prepositionalphrase inthesyntacticstructure. To characterizeitproperly, thefollowing relationships must beencoded: (25) a.It is ...
right toit without search; similarly, onecan reachfor thecoffee cup offin thecorner without really looking at it. Thus, as in th ...
the interval between adjacent notes (say a major third), every repetition of the same interval raises the problem; if the unit i ...
A more old-fashioned computational approach to lexical access (Miller 1956; Neisser 1967; Baddeley 1986) supposes that the acces ...
3.5.3 The proble mof variables The situationis stillmore problematic. Consider the problemof encoding a two-placerelationsuchas“ ...
use of typed variables. His agenda is to defuse the extravagant claims that have been made on behalf of a particular class of sp ...
bucketis retrieved in the course of sentence perception or production, it ought to have the very same sort of instantiationaslif ...
task) which then is used to formulate transient connections (i.e. the actual responses to stimuli in the experiment). More gener ...
CHAPTER 4 Universal Grammar 4.1 The logic of the argument Over theyears, themostcontroversialaspectofgenerativegrammar hasbeenCh ...
get away from the idea that the child's activity is anything like learning facts. Unfortunately, many of these terms still carry ...
in common and that therefore do not need to be mentioned in grammars of particular languages (Chomsky 1965: 5 – 6). This usage a ...
What are the initial assumptions [“functional prespecifications”] concerning the nature of language that the child brings to lan ...
Grammar is not the grammar of any single language: it is the prespecification in the brain that permits the learning of language ...
•“Chomskyclaims thatthereisa universal,innateDeepStructurethatencodes themeaning of language.”This reading of Chomsky was respon ...
some justification come to be known as the Linguistic Wars. In the end, for reasons detailed by Newmeyer (1980), Harris (1993), ...
•“How can Universal Grammar claim to be universal, when (at least at the beginning) it was applied only to English?”Answer: In f ...
Such an approach is subject to a certain justified skepticism. It is tempting to fall into the trap, upon encountering a new gra ...
the 1980s was to formulate an account that allowed for the observed phenomena without reintroducing the excessive promiscuity of ...
Alsointherepertoireofruletypesbelong particular constraintsonderivationsthathavebeenproposed over theyears. For instance, sectio ...
One would be laughed at for such a complaint in the case of an undeniably specialized system, say visual stereopsis (perceiving ...
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