Storage and Computation in the Language Faculty - Couverture souple

Weerman, F.; Wijnen, F.N.K; Nooteboom, S. G.

 
9781402005275: Storage and Computation in the Language Faculty

Synopsis

Every now and again I receive a lengthy manuscript from a kind of theoretician known to psychiatrists as the "triangle people" - kooks who have independently discovered that everything in the universe comes in threes (solid, liquid, gas; protons, neutrons, electrons; the Father, the Son, the Holy Ghost; Moe, Larry, Curly; and so on) . At the risk of sounding like a triangle person, let me explain why I think that the topic of this volume - - storage and computation in the language fac- ulty - though having just two sides rather than three, is the key to understanding every interesting issue in the study of language. I will begin with the fundamental scientific problem in linguistics: explaining the vast expressive power of language. What is the trick behind our ability to filleach others' heads with so many different ideas? I submit there is not one trick but two, and they have been emphasized by different thinkers throughout the history of linguistics.

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9781402005268: Storage and Computation in the Language Faculty

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ISBN 10 :  1402005261 ISBN 13 :  9781402005268
Editeur : Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2002
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