some psychological and neurological constraints on theories of grammar Dabrowska, Ewa Primary Author mixed material bibliography E. U. A. Gergetown University Press c2004 en English

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vii, 262 p. CONTENIDO Chapter 1 Introduction PART I THE BASIC SPECIFICATIONS Chapter 2 Language processing: speed and flexibility 1. The complexity of the task 2. Speed 3. Processing shortcuts 3.1 Prefabricated units 3.2 Shallow processing 3.3 Frequency 4. Implications for linguistic theory Chapter 3 Language acquisition: robustness 1. Individual differences 2. The role of input 3. Language development in blind children 4. The robustness of language Chapter 4 Language in the brain 1. The localisation issue 2. Preservation of grammatical knowledge in Broca’s aphasia 3. The co-occurrence of lexical and grammatical deficits 4. The resilience of language Chapter 5 Language and other cognitive processes 1. The modularity hypothesis 2. Problems with the double dissociation argument Chapter 6 Biological underpinnings 1. A genetically specified language module? 2. Human adaptations to language 2.1 Preadaptations 2.2 Cultural learning and mind-reading 2.3 Cortical control over vocalisations and coordinating action sequences 3. Language adaptations to humans 4. Universal Grammar again 4.1 Problems with the poverty-of-the stimulus argument 4.2 Some new questions 5. Conclusion PART II THE BUILDING BLOCKS OF LANGUAGE Chapter 7 Words 1. The semantics of locative terms 1.1 Conventional construal 1.2 Polysemy 1.3 Cross-linguistic variation 2. The acquisition of locative terms 2.1 Warlpiri 2.2 Tzotzil 2.3 Japanese 2.4 Korean 2.5 General discussion 3. Innate structure, yes – but of what kind? 3.1 Semantic primitives 3.2 Perceptual primitives 4. Lexical learning in a constrained connectionist network 5. Conclusion Chapter 8 On rules and regularity 1. Words and rules 2. The connectionist bombshell 3. The linguists strike back 4. The dual-mechanism model 5. The German plural: a minority default? 6. The Polish genitive: an inflectional system without a default 6.1 The system 6.2 Genitive masculine forms in default contexts 6.3 Adult productivity with genitive endings 6.4 Acquisition of the genitive inflection 7. The final test case: the Polish dative 8. Interim conclusions 9. Challenges for connectionism Chapter 9 Syntactic Constructions 1. Ties between lexical and grammatical knowledge 2. Multi-word units in acquisition 2.1 Premature usage 2.2 Developmental U-curves 2.3 Inappropriate and ungrammatical usage 2.4 Pronoun reversals 2.5 Filler syllables 2.6 Lexically based patterns 2.7 ‘Mosaic’ acquisition 3. A case study: questions 3.1 Early interrogative utterances 3.2 From formula to schema 3.3 Where do ‘non-formulaic’ utterances come from? 3.4 Evidence for piecemeal learning 3.5 Questions with long-distance dependencies 3.6 Conclusion Chapter 10 The cognitive enterprise 1. Towards a psychologically realistic grammar 2. A crash course in Cognitive Grammar 2.1 Linguistic expressions are symbolic units 2.2 Imagery 2.3 Things, processes and atemporal relations 2.4 Constructional schemas 2.5 Language as a structured inventory of conventional linguistic units 2.6 A usage-based model 2.7 Meeting the specifications 3. Language production in a CG framework 4. A cognitive view of language acquisition 5. More on regularity 6. Future directions Ewa Dabrowska Lenguaje y lenguas Adquisición de lenguaje Desarrollo del lenguaje Neurolingüística Psicolingüística Acervo General 1589010477 IMCC INSTITUTO MEXICANO DE CAPACITACIÓN Y CERTIFICACIÓN P37 D33 BMF001343 CAMPUS PRINCIPAL (Idiomas) P37 D33 Ej.1 descarga_%252884%2529.jpg.jpg 771 2024-05-24 02:16:24 2024-05-29 22:19:23 machine generated