Language, Mind and Brain
Some Psychological and Neurological Constraints on Theories of Grammar
1st Edition
Published on 1. June 2019
280 pages
978-1-4744-6601-1 (ISBN)
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This book explores the psychology of language and its neural substrate and shows how linguistics could benefit by incorporating insights from research on language acquisition, language processing, neurolinguistics and other disciplines concerned with human linguistic abilities.
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Ewa Dabrowska
Language, Mind and Brain
Some Psychological and Neurological Constraints on Theories of Grammar
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09/2004
Edinburgh University Press
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Content
- Intro
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- Acknowledgements
- Chapter 1 Introduction
- PART I THE BASIC SPECIFICATIONS
- Chapter 2 Language processing: speed and flexibilty
- 1. The complexity of the task
- 2. Speed
- 3. Processing shortcuts
- 4. Implications for linguistic theory
- Chapter 3 Language acquisition: robustness
- 1. Individual differences
- 2. The role of input
- 3. Language development in blind children
- 4. The robustness of langauge
- Chapter 4 Language in the brain
- 1. The localisation issue
- 2. Preservation of grammatical knowledge in Broca's aphasia
- 3. The co-occurrence of lexical and grammatical deficits
- 4. The resilience of langauge
- Chapter 5 Language and other cognitive processes
- 1. The modularity hypothesis
- 2. Problems with the double dissociation argument
- Chapter 6 Biological underpinnings
- 1. A genetically specified language module?
- 2. Human adaptationsto language
- 3. Language adaptations to humans
- 4. Universal Grammar again
- Conclusion
- PART II THE BUILDING BLOCKS OF LANGUAGE
- Chapter 7 Words
- 1. The semantics of locative terms
- 2. The acquisition of locative terms
- 3. Innate structure, yes - but of what kind?
- 4. Lexical learning in a constrained connectionist network
- 5. Conclusion
- Chapter 8 On rules and regularity
- 1. Words and rules
- 2. The connectionist bombshell
- 3. The linguists strike back
- 4. The daul-mechanism model
- 5. The German plural: a minority default?
- 6. The Polish genitive: an inflectional system without a default
- 7. The final test case: the Polish dative
- 8. Interim conclusions
- 9. Challenges for connectionism
- Chapter 9 Syntactic constructions
- 1. Ties between lexical and grammatical knowledge
- 2. Multi-word units in acquistion
- 3. A case study: questions
- 10 The cognitive enterprise
- 1. Towards a psychologically realistic grammar
- 2. A crash course in Cognitive Grammar
- 3. Language production in a CG framework
- 4. A cognitive view of language acquistion
- 5. More on regularity
- 6. Future directions
- Bibliography
- Index
