Foundations of Language: Brain, Meaning, Grammar, Evolution

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INDEX 475


sense (Fregean) 284, 296, 314, 322
Sentential Subject Constraint 48–9, 78, 146
Serbian/Serbo–Croatian 118 n., 195 n.
Seuren, Pieter 325, 413
Seyfarth,Robert 238–9, 324, 418
Sgall,P. 408
Shallice, Ti m206 n.
Shannon, Claude 30
Shanske, Alan 95 n.
Shastri, Lokanda 60 n.
Shattuck–Hufnagel, Stefanie 216
Sher, Gila 295, 327
short–term memory,Seeworking memory
sign language 37, 97–8, 99, 226, 236, 245, 299, 395 n.;
acquisition 96– 7
Sigurjóonsdóottir, S. 37, 178
Singer, W. 59, 60 n.
Slater, Peter 39, 245
Slowiaczek, Maria 226 n.
Smith, Brian 309 n.
Smith, Edward 61, 287, 345, 355
Smith, Neil 98
Smolensky, Paul 26 n., 44, 190
social concepts 302, 323–4, 374–6; in primates 417
social construction of language 280– 1
social context of language 4, 34– 7
social dominance 245
social interaction 84, 238
social reasoning 220 n. 16, 273, 274– 5
Southern Tiwa 76
Spanish 133 n., 292, 381 n. 4
spatial relations, language for 253
spatial structure/understanding 6, 12–14, 130, 199, 220 n. 17,
224, 274, 316, 346–50, 356–60, 370, 377
Specific Language Impairment 98–9, 164, 264
speech acts 34–5, 327–8, 374– 5
speech community 35–7, 330– 2
speech errors 30, 215– 17
Spelke, Elizabeth 88, 311 n.
Spencer, Andrew 156, 162 n. 3, 195 n.
Sperber, Dan 280, 283
squishy categories 25
Stalnaker, Robert 296, 408, 409
Standard Theory,SeeAspects of the Theory of Syntax
Steedman, Mark 63 n., 89, 220, 408
Steels, Luc 37, 81
Stiebels, Barbara 263
Stokoe, Willia m37
Stratificational Grammar 128
stress 112–17, 410, 411, 414– 15
structure–dependenceoflinguistic rules 63 n.
Studdert–Kennedy, Michael 25, 223, 244, 355


subcategorization 52, 54, 141, 144, 170, 176–7; see also
argument structure
subject–verb agreement 32 n.
subsumption architecture 235
subsymbolic organization 21
supernumerary arguments 139–40, 144
surface structure 15, 45–8, 171
Swedish 178
Sweet, Henry 51
Swinney, David 208
syllable 8, 13
syllable structure 52, 111–17, 186, 189, 192, 243–5, 335, 427
symbolic theory of mental representation 20, 26 n., 279–80,
305, 423
symbols 238– 41
symmetric predicates 181– 2
Syntactic Argument Ordering Constraint 142, 170
syntactic integration 212, 214–16, 218
syntactic integrative processor 208
syntactic structure 6, 9–10, 25, 125–6; claims of notation
24 – 7;see alsophrase structure
Syntactic Structures15, 30, 270
syntactocentric architecture 107–11, 126, 129, 149, 167, 180,
193, 194, 196–8, 233, 251, 270, 283 n., 409, 426– 8
Tabor, Whitney 63 n.
tactile perception 311, 346– 8
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