Language in Cognition: Uncovering Mental Structures and the Rules Behind ThemISBN: 978-1-4051-5881-7
Hardcover
264 pages
September 2009, Wiley-Blackwell
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Acknowledgments viii
Prologue xi
Part I Ever Since Chomsky 1
1 Mind Matters: Chomsky’s Dangerous Idea 3
2 The Mechanization of the Mind Picture 14
3 How the Mind Grows: From Meno to Noam 41
Part II Unweaving the Sentence 55
4 Mental Chemistry 57
5 The Variety of Linguistic Experience: The Towers of Babel and Pisa 82
6 All Roads Lead to Universal Grammar 95
Part III The Mental Foundations of Behavior 109
7 Making Sense of Meaning: An Instruction Manual 111
8 Wonderful Mental Life: Unthinkable without Language 120
9 Grammar Caught in the Act 133
Part IV Missing Links 147
10 The (Mis)Measure of Mind 149
11 Homo Combinans 163
12 Computational Organology 173
Epilogue 183
Notes 189
Guide to Further Study 211
References 219
Index 242