INDEX 473
phonetic perception 355
phonological integration 212, 216, 227
phonological structure 6, 7–9, 25–6, 52, 108–9, 111–17, 186,
196 – 7, 199, 274, 335, 424; evolution of 242–5; in
learning 89; in processing 202; in working memory
205 – 11
phrasal categories 25, 44
phrase structure, phrase structure rules 41–3, 180, 186, 189,
191, 218, 252, 255, 261–2, 425
Piattelli–Palmerini, Massimo 234, 264
pidgin languages 99–101, 235, 248–9, 252, 263– 4
Pierrehumbert, Janet 115
Piñiango, Maria 248, 392
Pinker, Steven 70, 71, 77, 89, 94, 125, 141, 161 n. 2, 163–5,
181, 185, 186, 218, 234, 236, 237, 247, 257, 289–90, 338,
344, 368, 377
plasticity of brain 92, 95
Plunkett, Ki m82, 163 n., 164
plural:; English 7, 155; German 164; Hebrew 164;
obligatory 171
pointing 242
Pollack, Jordan 59 n., 62
Pollard, Carl 10, 17, 34, 54, 155, 184, 194
Pollock, J.–Y. 162
polysemy 339–43, 353, 359, 367–8, 388, 391
Port–Royal Grammar 70
possession 356– 61
possible worlds 296, 333, 351
Postal, Paul 53 n., 73, 75, 76, 146 n., 182 n., 365 n. 21, 386
Potter, Mary 63
poverty of the stimulus 69, 82–90, 191
Povinelli, Daniel 242, 307 n.
Power, Camilla 237
practical reasoning 273
pragmatics185–7, 201, 245–6, 250, 273, 276, 280, 282–3, 288,
388 – 90, 391, 397, 409
Prague School 44 n. 8
Prasada, Sandeep 164
Prather, Penny 220
predicate nominals 136 n., 320, 396, 398
preference rule syste m355
Premack, David 95, 323 n.
presupposition 404, 408– 16
primate communication 233, 236, 239–40, 242, 245–6 427
priming:; lexical 209–11, 213, 222 n., 344; syntactic 217– 18
primitives,conceptual 334–9, 360, 364, 369, 377
Prince, Alan 44, 111, 162 n. 3, 163, 190
Prince, Ellen 408
Principles and Parameters Theory 102, 190–1, 251
pro–drop languages 133 n., 381 n. 4
Proble mof 205, 261–3, 422
productive vs. semi–productive meaning extension 340– 3
productive vs. semi–productive morphology 155–67, 187–90,
195, 343–4, 388, 423– 5
profiling 385
pronouns,Seeanaphora
proper function 370– 3
proper names 318–19, 379 n., 396, 400
prosodic structure 8, 83, 243, 408;see alsointonation; metrical
grid
protolanguage 235–6, 249–51, 255, 264, 410
prototypicality 348, 353– 6
psych–predicates 182 n., 290
psychological or (Φ-or) 354, 355
psychological reality 167, 198;see alsomentalist interpretation
Pullum, Geoffrey 121
Pulvermüller, F. 58
purpose 254, 370– 3
Pustejovsky, James 250, 280, 286–7, 338, 369–74, 384, 390,
392 n.