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Storage and Computation in the Language Faculty

Storage and Computation in the Language Faculty

Nooteboom, S. G.
Weerman, F.
Wijnen, F. N. K.

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Series: Studies in Theoretical Psycholinguistics, Book 30

LinguisticsCognition

ISBN10: 140200527X
ISBN13: 9781402005275
Publisher: Springer
Published: May 31 2002
Pages: 356
Weight: 1.10
Height: 0.76 Width: 6.10 Depth: 8.76
Language: English
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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