Storage and Computation in the Language Faculty
Editors: Nooteboom, S.G., Weerman, F., Wijnen, F.N.K (Eds.)
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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.
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Storage and Computation in the Language Faculty
- Editors
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- S.G. Nooteboom
- F. Weerman
- F.N.K Wijnen
- Series Title
- Studies in Theoretical Psycholinguistics
- Series Volume
- 30
- Copyright
- 2002
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Copyright Holder
- Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht
- eBook ISBN
- 978-94-010-0355-1
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-94-010-0355-1
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-1-4020-0527-5
- Series ISSN
- 1873-0043
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- 356
- Number of Illustrations and Tables
- 3 b/w illustrations
- Topics
