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The nature of the language faculty and its implications for evolution of language (Reply to Fitch, Hauser, and Chomsky)
Ray Jackendoff,Steven Pinker +1 more
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It is shown that recursion, though absent from other animals’ communications systems, is found in visual cognition, hence cannot be the sole evolutionary development that granted language to humans.About:
This article is published in Cognition.The article was published on 2005-09-01. It has received 319 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Conversation.read more
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Neural Turing Machines
TL;DR: A combined system is analogous to a Turing Machine or Von Neumann architecture but is differentiable end-toend, allowing it to be efficiently trained with gradient descent.
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Constructions at Work
TL;DR: This paper provides responses to the points raised in this volume in an e-ort to evaluate, clarify and extend some of the arguments in Constructions at Work.
Foundations of Language
TL;DR: For instance, in this paper, Ray Jackendoff's book draws together current thought from mainstream generative grammar and from more recent thinking on the function of the mind, and illuminates the interfaces between language and other functions of mind and at the same time helps define the scope of contemporary linguistic inquiry.
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The Evolution of Human Speech Its Anatomical and Neural Bases
TL;DR: The dating of the FOXP2 gene, which governs the embryonic development of subcortical structures regulating motor control, including speech production, as well as cognitive processes including syntax provides an insight on the evolution of speech and language.
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A Parallel Architecture perspective on language processing.
TL;DR: An approach to the structure of grammar that contrasts with mainstream generative grammar, which uses a parallel constraint-based formalism that is nondirectional and treats words and rules alike as pieces of linguistic structure stored in long-term memory, is sketches.
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The Language Instinct
TL;DR: In this "extremely valuable book, very informative, and very well written" (Noam Chomsky), one of the greatest thinkers in the field of linguistics explains how language works -how people, ny making noises with their mouths, can cause ideas to arise in other people's minds as mentioned in this paper.
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The Language of Thought
TL;DR: In this article, Fodor argues that, while our best current theories of cognitive psychology view many higher processes as computational, computation itself presupposes an internal medium of representation, which is the speculative approach to the philosophy of mind.
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Head-driven phrase structure grammar
Ivan A. Sag,Carl Jesse Pollard +1 more
TL;DR: This book presents the most complete exposition of the theory of head-driven phrase structure grammar, introduced in the authors' "Information-Based Syntax and Semantics," and demonstrates the applicability of the HPSG approach to a wide range of empirical problems.
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Constructions: A Construction Grammar Approach to Argument Structure
TL;DR: In this paper, the interaction between verbs and constructions is discussed, and relations among constructions are investigated in the context of English Ditransitive construction and English Caused-Motion construction.