Storage and Computation in the Language Faculty

1. Front Matter

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2. Minimising or Maximising Storage? An Introduction

   1. Minimising or Maximising Storage? An Introduction

      • Sieb Nooteboom, Fred Weerman, Frank Wijnen

      Pages 1-19

3. Setting the Stage

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 21-21

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   2. What’s in the Lexicon?

      • Ray Jackendoff

      Pages 23-58

4. Accessing Regular and Irregular Word Forms

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 59-59

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   2. Dutch Inflection: The Rules that Prove the Exception

      • Harald Baayen, Robert Schreuder, Nivja de Jong, Andrea Krott

      Pages 61-92

   3. Words, Rules and Stems in the Italian Mental Lexicon

      • Tessa Say, Harald Clahsen

      Pages 93-129

5. Changing the Rules

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 131-131

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   2. The Balance Between Storage and Computation in Phonology

      • Geert Booij

      Pages 133-156

   3. Computation and Storage in Language Contact

      • Pieter Muysken

      Pages 157-179

6. Pronouncing Spoken Words

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 181-181

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   2. Storage and Computation in Spoken Word Production

      • Ardi Roelofs

      Pages 183-216

7. Buffering and Computing

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 217-217

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   2. Effects of Short-Term Storage in Processing Rightward Movement

      • Peter Ackema, Ad Neeleman

      Pages 219-256

   3. Storage and Computation in Sentence Processing

      • Edith Kaan, Laurie Stowe

      Pages 257-295

8. Computing and Storing Aspects of Discourse

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 297-297

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   2. Computation and Storage in Discourse Interpretation

      • Nicholas Asher

      Pages 299-328

9. Back Matter

   Pages 329-343

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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.

• Italy
• cognitive science
• construction
• discourse
• experience
• interpret
• language
• language contact
• linguistics
• phonology
• psychology
• subject
• syntactic
• time
• tradition

• Utrecht Institute of Linguistics OTS, Utrecht University, The Netherlands

  Sieb Nooteboom, Frank Wijnen

• University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

  Fred Weerman

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