Language Biology And Cognition

Author : Prakash Mondal
Publisher : Springer
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 55,5 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 : Aleksandr Vladimirovich Kravchenko
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Autopoiesis
ISBN : 3631566476

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Biology of Cognition and Linguistic Analysis by Aleksandr Vladimirovich Kravchenko Pdf

This book is an attempt to re-evaluate some basic assumptions about language, communication, and cognition in the light of the new epistemology of autopoiesis as the theory of the living. Starting with a critique of common myths about language and communication, the author goes on to argue for a new understanding of language and cognition as functional adaptive activities in a consensual domain of interactions. He shows that such understanding is, in fact, what marks a variety of theoretical and empirical frameworks in contemporary non-Cartesian cognitive science; thus, cognitive science is in the process of working out new epistemological foundations for the study of language and cognition. In Part Two, the traditional concept of grammar is reassessed from the vantage point of autopoietic epistemology, and an analysis of specific grammatical phenomena in English and Russian is undertaken, revealing common cognitive mechanisms at work in linguistic categories.

Author : Cedric Boeckx,María del Carmen Horno-Chéliz
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2012-03-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781443838429

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Language, from a Biological Point of View by Cedric Boeckx,María del Carmen Horno-Chéliz Pdf

The present volume offers a collection of essays covering a broad range of areas where currently a rapprochement between linguistics and biology is actively being sought. Following a certain tradition, we call this attempt at a synthesis “biolinguistics.” The nine chapters (grouped into three parts: Language and Cognition, Language and the Brain, and Language and the Species) offer a comprehensive overview of issues at the forefront of biolinguistic research, such as language structure; language development; linguistic change and variation; language disorders and language processing; the cognitive, neural and genetic basis of linguistic knowledge; or the evolution of the Faculty of Language. Each contribution highlights exciting prospects for the field, but they also point to significant obstacles along the way. The main conclusion is that the age of theoretical exclusivity in Linguistics, much like the age of theoretical specificity, will have to end if interdisciplinarity is to reign and if biolinguistics is to flourish.

Author : Prakash Mondal
Publisher : Springer
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2016-09-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783319336909

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Language and Cognitive Structures of Emotion by Prakash Mondal Pdf

This book examines linguistic expressions of emotion in intensional contexts and offers a formally elegant account of the relationship between language and emotion. The author presents a compelling case for the view that there exist, contrary to popular belief, logical universals at the intersection of language and emotive content. This book shows that emotive structures in the mind that are widely assumed to be not only subjectively or socio-culturally variable but also irrelevant to a general theory of cognition offer an unusually suitable ground for a formal theory of emotive representations, allowing for surprising logical and cognitive consequences for a theory of cognition. Challenging mainstream assumptions in cognitive science and in linguistics, this book will appeal to linguists, philosophers of the mind, linguistic anthropologists, psychologists and cognitive scientists of all persuasions.

Author : Jacques Mehler
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0262041979

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Language, Brain, and Cognitive Development by Jacques Mehler Pdf

The contributions to this collection assess the progress of cognitive science. The questions addressed include: What have we learned or not learned about language, brain, and cognition? Where are we now? Where have we failed? Where have we succeeded?

Author : Lyle Jenkins
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2000-03-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1139426419

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Biolinguistics by Lyle Jenkins Pdf

This book investigates the nature of human language and its importance for the study of the mind. In particular, it examines current work on the biology of language. Lyle Jenkins reviews the evidence that language is best characterized by a generative grammar of the kind introduced by Noam Chomsky in the 1950s and developed in various directions since that time. He then discusses research into the development of language which tries to capture both the underlying universality of human language, as well as the diversity found in individual languages (Universal Grammar). Finally, he discusses a variety of approaches to language design and the evolution of language. An important theme is the integration of biolinguistics into the natural sciences - the 'unification problem'. Jenkins also answers criticisms of the biolinguistic approach from a number of other perspectives, including evolutionary psychology, cognitive science, connectionism and ape language research, among others.

Author : Koji Fujita,Cedric A. Boeckx
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 46,9 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 : Ronald Planer,Kim Sterelny
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2021-10-12
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780262366021

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From Signal to Symbol by Ronald Planer,Kim Sterelny Pdf

A novel account of the evolution of language and the cognitive capacities on which language depends. In From Signal to Symbol, Ronald Planer and Kim Sterelny propose a novel theory of language: that modern language is the product of a long series of increasingly rich protolanguages evolving over the last two million years. Arguing that language and cognition coevolved, they give a central role to archaeological evidence and attempt to infer cognitive capacities on the basis of that evidence, which they link in turn to communicative capacities. Countering other accounts, which move directly from archaeological traces to language, Planer and Sterelny show that rudimentary forms of many of the elements on which language depends can be found in the great apes and were part of the equipment of the earliest species in our lineage. After outlining the constraints a theory of the evolution of language should satisfy and filling in the details of their model, they take up the evolution of words, composite utterances, and hierarchical structure. They consider the transition from a predominantly gestural to a predominantly vocal form of language and discuss the economic and social factors that led to language. Finally, they evaluate their theory in terms of the constraints previously laid out.

Author : Norman A. Krasnegor
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0805809937

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Biological and Behavioral Determinants of Language Development by Norman A. Krasnegor Pdf

First Published in 1991. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Philip Lieberman
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2006-06-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780674021846

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Toward an Evolutionary Biology of Language by Philip Lieberman Pdf

In this forcefully argued book, the leading evolutionary theorist of language draws on evidence from evolutionary biology, genetics, physical anthropology, anatomy, and neuroscience, to provide a framework for studying the evolution of human language and cognition. Philip Lieberman argues forcibly that the widely influential theories of language's development, advanced by Chomskian linguists and cognitive scientists, especially those that postulate a single dedicated language "module," "organ," or "instinct," are inconsistent with principles and findings of evolutionary biology and neuroscience. He argues that the human neural system in its totality is the basis for the human language ability, for it requires the coordination of neural circuits that regulate motor control with memory and higher cognitive functions. Pointing out that articulate speech is a remarkably efficient means of conveying information, Lieberman also highlights the adaptive significance of the human tongue. Fully human language involves the species-specific anatomy of speech, together with the neural capacity for thought and movement. In Lieberman's iconoclastic Darwinian view, the human language ability is the confluence of a succession of separate evolutionary developments, jury-rigged by natural selection to work together for an evolutionarily unique ability.

Author : Lawrence J. Raphael
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2014-09-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1489903828

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Language and Cognition by Lawrence J. Raphael Pdf

Author : Arie Verhagen
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2021-06-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789004422353

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Ten Lectures on Cognitive Evolutionary Linguistics by Arie Verhagen Pdf

Conceiving of language and cognition as biological phenomena, these lectures provide and illustrate a coherent, integrated theoretical framework for studying essentially any aspect of language systems, language use, language change, and language evolution.

Author : Jules B. Davidoff
Publisher : MIT Press (MA)
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Psychology
ISBN : UOM:39015021494540

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Cognition Through Color by Jules B. Davidoff Pdf

A century ago phrenologists described a "bump" for color located just over the eyebrow. Today's modular approach to the organization of the visual cortex is more sophisticated, yet it still holds that there are brain areas dedicated solely to particular aspects of perception. "Cognition through Color "reviews the current status of investigations of color cognition from the standpoint of modern neuropsychology. It provides clear evidence, based on a large body of empirical study that includes the author's own work on color perception and naming, that color appears to be one of the basic building blocks or modules from which perception is constructed and our memories organized. Davidoff systematically relates this evidence to an explicit model of color cognition from sensation through functional role to naming.The original impetus for "Cognition through Color "came from the investigation of individuals with brain damage. There are, for example, patients who have difficulty in naming colors. More important, despite normal color vision, memory for colors can be "split off" from all aspects of memory for shapes and objects, providing a strong case for the notion of modularity in vision.Davidoff shows that to understand how color is remembered, we must know how objects are recognized. He observes that the perception of what we call color is, in essence, the study of the surface properties of objects, and he develops a model in which the mental representations for color can be linked to the knowledge of objects. Throughout he emphasizes detailed critical analysis of experimental data in light of current theories of both perception and cognition.

Author : Megan R. Gunnar,Michael Maratsos
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2014-02-25
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781317782216

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Modularity and Constraints in Language and Cognition by Megan R. Gunnar,Michael Maratsos Pdf

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.

Author : Karen Emmorey
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0805833994

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Language, Cognition, and the Brain by Karen Emmorey Pdf

Once signed languages are recognized as natural human languages, a world of exploration opens up. Signed languages provide a powerful tool for investigating the nature of human language and language processing, the relation between cognition and language, and the neural organization of language. The value of sign languages lies in their modality. Specifically, for perception, signed languages depend upon high-level vision and motion processing systems, and for production, they require the integration of motor systems involving the hands and face. These facts raise many questions: What impact does this different biological base have for grammatical systems? For online language processing? For the acquisition of language? How does it affect nonlinguistic cognitive structures and processing? Are the same neural systems involved? These are some of the questions that this book aims at addressing. The answers provide insight into what constrains grammatical form, language processing, linguistic working memory, and hemispheric specialization for language. The study of signed languages allows researchers to address questions about the nature of linguistic and cognitive systems that otherwise could not be easily addressed.