Storage and Computation in the Language Faculty

S. G. Nooteboom

ISBN 10: 140200527X / ISBN 13: 9781402005275

Published by Springer Netherlands, Springer Netherlands Mai 2002, 2002

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This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -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.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 364 pp. Englisch.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Storage and Computation in the Language Faculty
• Publisher: Springer Netherlands, Springer Netherlands Mai 2002
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 140200527X
• ISBN 13: 9781402005275
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 223W x 152H x 20D millimeters 223 millimeters width by 152 millimeters height by 20 millimeters depth
• Weight: 513 grams

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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.