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Foundations of Language
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The faculty of language: what is it, who has it, and how did it evolve?
TL;DR: It is argued that an understanding of the faculty of language requires substantial interdisciplinary cooperation and how current developments in linguistics can be profitably wedded to work in evolutionary biology, anthropology, psychology, and neuroscience is suggested.
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Toward a mechanistic psychology of dialogue
Martin J. Pickering,Simon Garrod +1 more
TL;DR: A mechanistic account of dialogue, the interactive alignment account, is proposed and used to derive a number of predictions about basic language processes, and the need for a grammatical framework that is designed to deal with language in dialogue rather than monologue is considered.
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Building machines that learn and think like people.
TL;DR: In this article, a review of recent progress in cognitive science suggests that truly human-like learning and thinking machines will have to reach beyond current engineering trends in both what they learn and how they learn it.
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Where mathematics comes from : how the embodied mind brings mathematics into being
George Lakoff,Rafael E. Núñez +1 more
TL;DR: The authors argues that conceptual metaphor plays a central role in mathematical ideas within the cognitive unconscious, from arithmetic and algebra to sets and logic to infinity in all of its forms, and that abstract ideas for the most part arise via conceptual metaphor-metaphorical ideas projecting from the way we function in the everyday physical world.
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The myth of language universals: Language diversity and its importance for cognitive science
TL;DR: This target article summarizes decades of cross-linguistic work by typologists and descriptive linguists, showing just how few and unprofound the universal characteristics of language are, once the authors honestly confront the diversity offered to us by the world's 6,000 to 8,000 languages.