Storage and Computation in the Language Faculty

by S.G. Nooteboom (Editor), F. Weerman (Editor), F.N.K Wijnen (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781402005275
Publisher:	Springer Netherlands
Publication date:	05/31/2002
Series:	Studies in Theoretical Psycholinguistics , #30
Edition description:	2002
Pages:	356
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 8.78(h) x 0.03(d)

Table of Contents

1 Minimising or maximising storage? An introduction.- I Setting the stage.- 2 What’s in the lexicon?.- II Accessing regular and irregular word forms.- 3 Dutch inflection: The rules that prove the exception.- 4 Words, rules and stems in the Italian mental lexicon.- III Changing the rules.- 5 The balance between storage and computation in phonology.- 6 Computation and storage in language contact.- IV Pronouncing spoken words.- 7 Storage and computation in spoken word production.- V Buffering and computing.- 8 Effects of short-term storage in processing rightward movement.- 9 Storage and computation in sentence processing. A neuroimaging perspective.- VI Computing and storing aspects of discourse.- 10 Computation and storage in discourse interpretation.- Author Index.