Chomsky S Modularity Hypothesis Is There An Innate Language Module
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Chomsky S Modularity Hypothesis Is There An Innate Language Module
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Author : Gabriele Grenkowski
language : en
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Release Date : 2012-03
Chomsky S Modularity Hypothesis Is There An Innate Language Module written by Gabriele Grenkowski and has been published by GRIN Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-03 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Seminar paper from the year 2012 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 1,3, RWTH Aachen University (Institut für Anglistik der RWTH Aachen), course: Proseminar Language Acquisition, language: English, abstract: This term paper deals with Noam Chomsky's Modularity or rather Innateness Hypothesis, particularly with the question if there might be an innate language module in people's minds. To discuss and maybe answer this question, I will first give a short summary of the Modularity Hypothesis as found in works of Chomsky and also of Jerry Fodor. After that, I will summarize Chomsky's theory of innateness, in connection with his belief that there exists a "Universal Grammar", which is responsible for people's ability to acquire language.
Chomsky S Modularity Hypothesis Is There An Innate Language Module
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Author : Gabriele Grenkowski
language : en
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Release Date : 2012-03-05
Chomsky S Modularity Hypothesis Is There An Innate Language Module written by Gabriele Grenkowski and has been published by GRIN Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-03-05 with Literary Collections categories.
Seminar paper from the year 2012 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 1,3, RWTH Aachen University (Institut für Anglistik der RWTH Aachen), course: Proseminar Language Acquisition, language: English, abstract: This term paper deals with Noam Chomsky’s Modularity or rather Innateness Hypothesis, particularly with the question if there might be an innate language module in people’s minds. To discuss and maybe answer this question, I will first give a short summary of the Modularity Hypothesis as found in works of Chomsky and also of Jerry Fodor. After that, I will summarize Chomsky’s theory of innateness, in connection with his belief that there exists a “Universal Grammar”, which is responsible for people’s ability to acquire language.
Modularity In Knowledge Representation And Natural Language Understanding
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Author : Jay L. Garfield
language : en
Publisher:
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Modularity In Knowledge Representation And Natural Language Understanding written by Jay L. Garfield and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with categories.
The Multilingual Mind
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Author : Michael Sharwood Smith
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2014-02-06
The Multilingual Mind written by Michael Sharwood Smith and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-02-06 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Language lies at the heart of the way we think, communicate and view the world. Most people on this planet are in some sense multilingual. The Multilingual Mind explores, within a processing perspective, how languages share space and interact in our minds. The mental architecture proposed in this volume permits research across many domains in cognitive science to be integrated and explored within one explanatory framework, recasting compatible insights and findings in terms of a common set of terms and concepts. The MOGUL framework has already proven effective for shedding light on the relationship between processing and learning, metalinguistic knowledge, consciousness, optionality, crosslinguistic influence, the initial state, 'UG access', ultimate attainment, input enhancement, and even language instruction. This groundbreaking work will be essential reading for linguists working in language acquisition, multilingualism, and language processing, as well as for those working in related areas of psychology, neurology and cognitive science.
Language And Mind
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Author : Noam Chomsky
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2006-01-12
Language And Mind written by Noam Chomsky and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-01-12 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This is the third edition of Chomsky's outstanding collection of essays on language and mind, first published in 2006. The first six chapters, originally published in the 1960s, made a groundbreaking contribution to linguistic theory. This edition complements them with an additional chapter and a new preface, bringing Chomsky's influential approach into the twenty-first century. Chapters 1-6 present Chomsky's early work on the nature and acquisition of language as a genetically endowed, biological system (Universal Grammar), through the rules and principles of which we acquire an internalized knowledge (I-language). Over the past fifty years, this framework has sparked an explosion of inquiry into a wide range of languages, and has yielded some major theoretical questions. The final chapter revisits the key issues, reviewing the 'biolinguistic' approach that has guided Chomsky's work from its origins to the present day, and raising some novel and exciting challenges for the study of language and mind.
Between Biology And Sociality
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Author : Matthew Cushing
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014
Between Biology And Sociality written by Matthew Cushing and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with Language and languages categories.
The philosophy of language is often divided by methodological and discursive differences. This thesis joins a tradition that explains language through biological structures with one that focuses on the social aspects of language in order to provide an evolutionary linguistic framework that respects the intuitions of both traditions. After considering the shortcomings of the modular linguistic model offered by Noam Chomsky (1928- ), whose encapsulation of linguistic capabilities provides a robust account of syntax but not semantics, I argue that it is fruitful to return to the intuitions of Ferdinand de Saussure (1857-1913). In doing so, this work advances an evolutionary narrative that situates the constituent elements of linguistic practice (semantics, syntax, and pragmatics) in a biological narrative which accounts for the evolution of language over time. By considering those elements of modern human language that may be innate as well as the function and development of non-innate elements of language, it is possible to not only understand language's history but also the mechanisms by which it will continue to evolve. In ways that the human biological conception is problematic insofar as it methodologically prohibits important data needed to describe language outside of its specifically human instantiation. In Chapter 2, I analyze the strengths and weaknesses of a model which rests on a strongly encapsulated linguistic module like the one Chomsky offers. A biological account of linguistic traits is necessary to account for the relative uniqueness of human language compared to the communicative systems of other animals. It is also necessary to account for poverty of stimulus and critical period considerations. However, there is ample data suggesting that the parts of the brain that account for language capabilities are domain-dominant rather than domain-specific. In considering the ramifications of a domain-dominant model, I establish a need for including the social elements of language in any narrative that attempts to explain the brain structures that support its use. I further argue that including these social elements in our narratives provides a way of accounting for how innate linguistic structures came to evolve in the first place. In Chapter 3, I introduce Saussurean linguistics as a means of accounting for the semantic and social aspects of human language. While Saussurean theory does not do an adequate job of explaining all aspects of modern human language, it provides useful insights into those aspects of language that are not accounted for by an innate and dedicated linguistic module. By placing Saussurean semiotics alongside more primitive cognitive tools, it is possible to theorize about the non-linguistic pressures towards grammaticalization that lead to devoted linguistic brain structures. In Chapter 4, I elaborate on the mechanisms that bring a Saussurean social semantic system and a Chomskyan modular and biological system into a viable synthesis. Accounting for the change by which an inherently open Saussurean linguistics proceeds via pragmatics, I finalize my evolutionary account by placing semiotic intuitions as key to semantic content. In this model, pragmatic and social use of a sign system is the stimulus by which semantic content undergoes change and development. As cultural use of a sign system advances, evolutionary pressures resulting from this development cause syntactical intuitions to solidify into the human cognitive toolkit in a way consistent with the biological and domain-dominant model suggested in previous chapters.
Resolving Semantic Ambiguity
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Author : David S. Gorfein
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2012-12-06
Resolving Semantic Ambiguity written by David S. Gorfein and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-12-06 with Computers categories.
Resolving Semantic Ambiguity arrrays the work of leading theorists on the issues surrounding the meaning and interpretation of ambiguous text. The chapters are organized around three major themes: (1) retrieval, (2) representation of words, and (3) text as a context. The book offers a number of new challenges to the role of context in language processing, some striking new evidence on the repetition of homographs in different contexts, and new approaches to resolution capable of being incorporated into either modular or network models. In several papers the problem of ambiguity is extended to include the problem of weak ambiguity and understanding text themes. The book provides a unique starting point for researchers approaching the problems of meaning in cognitive science, psychology, and computational linguistics.
Modularity And Constraints In Language And Cognition
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Author : Megan R. Gunnar
language : en
Publisher: Psychology Press
Release Date : 2014-02-25
Modularity And Constraints In Language And Cognition written by Megan R. Gunnar and has been published by Psychology Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-02-25 with Psychology categories.
One of the central problems in the study of modern cognition is the degree to which higher cognition is modularized: that is, how much are higher functions carried out by domain-specific, specialized, cognitive subsystems, rather than a highly general cognitive learning and inferring device? To date, ideas and proposals about modularity have been best developed in the study of vision and grammar. In the present volume, the usefulness of approaches employing modularity and domain specificity are further explored in papers on the development of biological thought, word meaning, symbols, and emotional development, as well as in the core area of grammar itself, by leading researchers in these fields. The volume also contains an introduction to some basic ideas and concepts in the study of modularity and domain-specificity, and some critical discussion of the overall problems of the modularity constraints approach to analyzing development.
The Routledge Encyclopedia Of Second Language Acquisition
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Author : Peter Jake Robinson
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013
The Routledge Encyclopedia Of Second Language Acquisition written by Peter Jake Robinson and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Foreign Language Study categories.
The Routledge Encyclopedia of Second Language Acquisition offers a user-friendly, authoritative survey of terms and constructs that are important to understanding research in second language acquisition (SLA) and its applications. The Encyclopedia is designed for use as a reference tool by students, researchers, teachers and professionals with an interest in SLA. The Encyclopedia has the following features: * 252 alphabetized entries written in an accessible style, including cross references to other related entries in the Encyclopedia and suggestions for further reading * Among these, 9 survey entries that cover the foundational areas of SLA in detail: Development in SLA, Discourse and Pragmatics in SLA, Individual Differences in SLA, Instructed SLA, Language and the Lexicon in SLA, Measuring and Researching SLA, Psycholingustics of SLA, Social and Sociocultural Approaches to SLA, Theoretical Constructs in SLA. * The rest of the entries cover all the major subdisciplines, methodologies and concepts of SLA, from "Accommodation" to the "ZISA project." Written by an international team of specialists, the Routledge Encyclopedia of Second Language Acquisition is an invaluable resource for students and researchers with an academic interest in SLA.
Relations Of Language And Thought
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Author : Marc Marschark
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 1997-08-14
Relations Of Language And Thought written by Marc Marschark and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997-08-14 with Psychology categories.
The relationship of language to cognition, especially in development, is an issue that has occupied philosophers, psychologists, and linguists for centuries. In recent years, the scientific study of sign languages and deaf individuals has greatly enhanced our understanding of deafness, language, and cognition. This Counterpoints volume considers the extent to which the use of sign language might affect the course and character of cognitive development, and presents a variety of viewpoints in this debate. This volume brings the language-thought discussion into a clearer focus, both theoretically and practically, by placing it in the context of children growing up deaf and the influences of having sign language as their primary form of communication. The discussion is also sharpened by having internationally recognized contributors, such as Patricia Siple, Diane Lillo-Martin, and Ruth Campbell, with specialties in varied areas, all converging on a common interest in which each has conducted empirical research. These contributors clarify and challenge the theoretical assumptions that have driven arguments in the language-thought debate for centuries. An introduction by the editors provides a historical overview of the issues as well as a review of empirical findings that have been offered in response to questions about language-thought relations in deaf children. The final chapters are structured in the form of "live" debate, in which each contributor is given the opportunity to respond to the other perspectives presented in this volume.