Biolinguistics And Philosophy Insights And Obstacles

Author : Elliot Murphy
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2012-11-09
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781291186772

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Biolinguistics and Philosophy: Insights and Obstacles by Elliot Murphy Pdf

This study explores the current stage of generative linguistics, the Minimalist Program, and examines its philosophical implications, tracing the basic themes back to the seventeenth-century scientific revolutions and the nineteenth-century biological tradition of formalism. Expositions of the 'philosophy of biolinguistics' have previously been few and short, and exploring the insights of recent theoretical linguists and neurobiologists can shed some much needed light on the problems posed by analytical philosophy, such as traditional questions of 'reference' and 'truth.'

Author : Noury Bakrim
Publisher : BoD - Books on Demand
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2021-08-05
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9782322376599

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The Real-Object-Hypothesis of Language (The ROAL-Model) by Noury Bakrim Pdf

In addition of proposing a model of language based on a bio-mathematical reduction within a synthesis between deduction, induction it suggests a much more important role of learning symmetry (especially iconicity) parallel to Universal Grammar. Without any theoretical megalomania, the model you will be discovering, reading and hopefully discussing hypothesizes two propositional principles with an important role of thermodynamic information : the shift from the bio-semiotic to the semiotic order along with the neural/dynamic mapping is embedded in the shift from thermodynamic laws without proposition (methodologically defined by hypothetic-probabilistic states of the ''internal observer'', Boltzmann-Bernoulli proposals and quantization) to biological and cultural consciousness (selection, combination, self-reference and symmetry etc etc)

Author : Fahad Rashed Al-Mutairi
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2014-10-16
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781107041349

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The Minimalist Program by Fahad Rashed Al-Mutairi Pdf

This evaluation of Chomsky's work from the perspectives of linguistics, evolution of language, history of physics, and philosophy of mind is interdisciplinary. It encourages linguists to reflect on the foundations of their discipline, and invites non-linguists to appreciate the complexity of human language and its place in the world.

Author : Koji Fujita,Cedric A. Boeckx
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2016-02-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317486190

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Advances in Biolinguistics by Koji Fujita,Cedric A. Boeckx Pdf

Biolinguistics is a highly interdisciplinary field that seeks the rapprochement between linguistics and biology. Linking theoretical linguistics, theoretical biology, genetics, neuroscience and cognitive psychology, this book offers a collection of chapters situating the enterprise conceptually, highlighting both the promises and challenges of the field, and chapters focusing on the challenges and prospects of taking interdisciplinarity seriously. It provides concrete illustrations of some of the cutting-edge research in biolinguistics and piques the interest of undergraduate students looking for a field to major in and inspires graduate students on possible research directions. It is also meant to show to specialists in adjacent fields how a particular strand of theoretical linguistics relates to their concerns, and in so doing, the book intends to foster collaboration across disciplines. Chapter 1 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

Author : Antonino Pennisi,Alessandra Falzone
Publisher : Springer
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2016-12-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783319476889

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Darwinian Biolinguistics by Antonino Pennisi,Alessandra Falzone Pdf

This book proposes a radically evolutionary approach to biolinguistics that consists in considering human language as a form of species-specific intelligence entirely embodied in the corporeal structures of Homo sapiens. The book starts with a historical reconstruction of two opposing biolinguistic models: the Chomskian Biolinguistic Model (CBM) and the Darwinian Biolinguistic Model (DBM). The second part compares the two models and develops into a complete reconsideration of the traditional biolinguistic issues in an evolutionary perspective, highlighting their potential influence on the paradigm of biologically oriented cognitive science. The third part formulates the philosophical, evolutionary and experimental basis of an extended theory of linguistic performativity within a naturalistic perspective of pragmatics of verbal language. The book proposes a model in which the continuity between human and non-human primates is linked to the gradual development of the articulatory and neurocerebral structures, and to a kind of prelinguistic pragmatics which characterizes the common nature of social learning. In contrast, grammatical, semantic and pragmatic skills that mark the learning of historical-natural languages are seen as a rapid acceleration of cultural evolution. The book makes clear that this acceleration will not necessarily favour the long-term adaptations for Homo sapiens.

Author : Ryan M. Nefdt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2024-05-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781009085304

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The Philosophy of Theoretical Linguistics by Ryan M. Nefdt Pdf

What is the remit of theoretical linguistics? How are human languages different from animal calls or artificial languages? What philosophical insights about language can be gleaned from phonology, pragmatics, probabilistic linguistics, and deep learning? This book addresses the current philosophical issues at the heart of theoretical linguistics, which are widely debated not only by linguists, but also philosophers, psychologists, and computer scientists. It delves into hitherto uncharted territory, putting philosophy in direct conversation with phonology, sign language studies, supersemantics, computational linguistics, and language evolution. A range of theoretical positions are covered, from optimality theory and autosegmental phonology to generative syntax, dynamic semantics, and natural language processing with deep learning techniques. By both unwinding the complexities of natural language and delving into the nature of the science that studies it, this book ultimately improves our tools of discovery aimed at one of the most essential features of our humanity, our language.

Author : Antonio Benítez-Burraco,Koji Fujita,Koji Hoshi,Ljiljana Progovac
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2021-03-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 9782889666515

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The Biology of Language Under a Minimalist Lens: Promises, Achievements, and Limits by Antonio Benítez-Burraco,Koji Fujita,Koji Hoshi,Ljiljana Progovac Pdf

Author : Cedric Boeckx,Kleanthes K. Grohmann
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2013-02-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781107354531

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The Cambridge Handbook of Biolinguistics by Cedric Boeckx,Kleanthes K. Grohmann Pdf

Biolinguistics involves the study of language from a broad perspective that embraces natural sciences, helping us better to understand the fundamentals of the faculty of language. This Handbook offers the most comprehensive state-of-the-field survey of the subject available. A team of prominent scholars working in a variety of disciplines is brought together to examine language development, language evolution and neuroscience, as well as providing overviews of the conceptual landscape of the field. The Handbook includes work at the forefront of contemporary research devoted to the evidence for a language instinct, the critical period hypothesis, grammatical maturation, bilingualism, the relation between mind and brain and the role of natural selection in language evolution. It will be welcomed by graduate students and researchers in a wide range of disciplines, including linguistics, evolutionary biology and cognitive science.

Author : Lyle Jenkins
Publisher : Brill
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Biolinguistics
ISBN : UCSC:32106017750214

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Variation and Universals in Biolinguistics by Lyle Jenkins Pdf

Offers an overview of work on the biology of language - what is sometimes called the "biolinguistic approach." This book focuses on the interplay between variation and the universal properties of language. It provides case studies from the areas of syntactic variation, genetic variation, neurological variation and historical variation.

Author : Ángel J. Gallego,Roger Martin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-18
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781107152946

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Language, Syntax, and the Natural Sciences by Ángel J. Gallego,Roger Martin Pdf

An exploration of human language from the perspective of the natural sciences, this outstanding book brings together leading specialists to discuss the scientific connection of language to disciplines such as mathematics, physics, chemistry and biology.

Author : Elliot Murphy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-05
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781108836319

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The Oscillatory Nature of Language by Elliot Murphy Pdf

Develops a theory of how language is processed in the brain and provides a state-of-the-art review of current neuroscientific debates.

Author : Nirmalangshu Mukherji
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2022-06-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781350062696

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The Human Mind through the Lens of Language by Nirmalangshu Mukherji Pdf

Most living forms in nature display various cognitive abilities in their behaviour. However, except for humans, no other animal builds fires and wheels, navigates with maps and tells stories to other conspecifics. We can witness this unique feature of the human mind in almost everything humans do, such as painting, singing and cooking; there is an underlying sense of unity in the generative part of these systems despite wide differences in what they are about. This book introduces, defends and develops a novel philosophical approach to the study of the generative mind. Nirmalangshu Mukherji argues for a single, species-specific generative principle that accounts for the human ability to combine symbolic forms without bound in each domain that falls under the generative mind.

Author : Elliot Murphy
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 591 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781470925550

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On the Mind and Freedom by Elliot Murphy Pdf

Author : Prakash Mondal
Publisher : Springer
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2019-07-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783030237158

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Language, Biology and Cognition by Prakash Mondal Pdf

This book examines the relationship between human language and biology in order to determine whether the biological foundations of language can offer deep insights into the nature and form of language and linguistic cognition. Challenging the assumption in biolinguistics and neurolinguistics that natural language and linguistic cognition can be reconciled with neurobiology, the author argues that reducing representation to cognitive systems and cognitive systems to neural populations is reductive, leading to inferences about the cognitive basis of linguistic performance based on assuming (false) dependencies. Instead, he finds that biological implementations of cognitive rather than the biological structures themselves, are the driver behind linguistic structures. In particular, this book argues that the biological roots of language are useful only for an understanding of the emergence of linguistic capacity as a whole, but ultimately irrelevant to understanding the character of language. Offering an antidote to the current thinking embracing ‘biologism’ in linguistic sciences, it will be of interest to readers in linguistics, the cognitive and brain sciences, and the points at which these disciplines converge with the computer sciences.

Author : Donald Favareau
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 882 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2010-06-10
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781402096501

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Essential Readings in Biosemiotics by Donald Favareau Pdf

Synthesizing the findings from a wide range of disciplines – from biology and anthropology to philosophy and linguistics – the emerging field of Biosemiotics explores the highly complex phenomenon of sign processing in living systems. Seeking to advance a naturalistic understanding of the evolution and development of sign-dependent life processes, contemporary biosemiotic theory offers important new conceptual tools for the scientific understanding of mind and meaning, for the development of artificial intelligence, and for the ongoing research into the rich diversity of non-verbal human, animal and biological communication processes. Donald Favareau’s Essential Readings in Biosemiotics has been designed as a single-source overview of the major works informing this new interdiscipline, and provides scholarly historical and analytical commentary on each of the texts presented. The first of its kind, this book constitutes a valuable resource to both bioscientists and to semioticians interested in this emerging new discipline, and can function as a primary textbook for students in biosemiotics, as well. Moreover, because of its inherently interdisciplinary nature and its focus on the ‘big questions’ of cognition, meaning and evolutionary biology, this volume should be of interest to anyone working in the fields of cognitive science, theoretical biology, philosophy of mind, evolutionary psychology, communication studies or the history and philosophy of science.