Cognitive Interfaces: Constraints on Linking Cognitive Information (Oxford Linguistics)

✍ Scribed by Emile van de Zee, Urpo Nikanne

• Year: 2001
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 273
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book brings new perspectives to bear on the architecture of the mind and the relationship between language and cognition. It considers how information is linked in the mind between different cognitive and expressive levels - so that people can, for example, talk about what they see and act upon what they hear - and how these linkages are and need to be constrained. The book is concerned in particular with the perception and representation of spatial structure. The authors, all psychologists and linguists, show that insights can be gained from the joint deployment of theoretical linguistic and experimental psychological research and the value of a multi-disciplinary approach to the study of mind, brain, and language.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 6
Preface......Page 10
Abbreviations......Page 11
List of Figures......Page 12
1. Introducing Cognitive Interfaces and Constraints on Linking Cognitive Information......Page 14
Part One: Constraints on the Conceptual-Structure-to-Syntactic-Structure Interface......Page 32
2.1. Introduction......Page 34
2.2. The Computational System......Page 39
2.3. Conceptual Arguments for Multiple Interfaces......Page 43
2.4. Chains......Page 51
2.5. The Left Periphery......Page 59
2.6. Concluding Discussion......Page 65
3.1. Introduction......Page 67
3.2. Lexical Meaning as Reflected in Conceptual Indexing......Page 69
3.3. Constructional Meaning as Reflected in Conceptual Indexing......Page 73
3.4. Track-keeping Indexing and its Relation to Conceptual Indexing......Page 82
3.5. Concluding Discussion......Page 86
Part Two: Constraints on the Conceptual-Structure-to-Spatial-Structure Interface......Page 88
4.1. Introduction......Page 90
4.2. Organization of Mental Modules......Page 91
4.3. Conceptual-structure Constraints of ‘Figure’......Page 93
4.4. Dealing with Paths......Page 99
4.5. Concluding Discussion......Page 106
5.1. Introduction......Page 107
5.2. The Influence of Function on Choosing a Reference Frame......Page 115
5.3. The Influence of Function on Imposing a Reference Frame......Page 120
5.4. How Function Influences Reference Frames......Page 124
5.5. Concluding Discussion......Page 128
6.1. Retrieving Spatial Relations from Observation and Memory......Page 129
6.2. Experiment 1: Responding from Memory or Observation: Surrounding Spatial Array......Page 135
6.3. Experiment 2: Responding from Memory or Observation: External Spatial Array......Page 143
6.4. Concluding Discussion......Page 150
Part Three: Constraints on the Lexical Interface......Page 154
7.1. Introduction......Page 156
7.2. Representational Modularity......Page 157
7.3. How to Encode Curvature Distinctions for Language?......Page 160
7.4. The Formal Structure of CS Representations......Page 168
7.5. The Lexical Structure of Dutch Nouns that Refer to Curvature Distinctions......Page 171
7.6. The Lexical Structure of Dutch Verbs that Refer to Extrinsic Path Curvature......Page 173
7.7. The Lexical Structure of Dutch Verbs that Refer to Intrinsic and/or Extrinsic Path Curvature......Page 176
7.8. Verbs that Refer to Geon Axis Deformation......Page 181
7.9. Verbs that Refer to Geon Axis Extension......Page 184
7.10. Adjectives and Adverbs that Refer to Curvature Distinctions......Page 187
7.11. Concluding Discussion......Page 192
Part Four: Constraints on ‘Interfaces’ From a Connectionist Perspective......Page 196
8.1. Introduction......Page 198
8.2. Representing Relations......Page 199
8.3. Five Facts about Relations......Page 202
8.4. A New Proposal about Relational Representations......Page 213
8.5. Concluding Discussion......Page 226
9.1. Introduction: The Architecture of Language......Page 228
9.2. Diachronic Structure and PF......Page 230
9.3. Synchronic Structure and LF......Page 233
9.4. Synchronicity—Two, Three, or Four Relationships?......Page 241
9.5. X-Bar Theory and Synchronic Structure......Page 242
9.6. Dual System of Representation......Page 245
References......Page 248
Notes on Contributors......Page 266
M......Page 268
X......Page 269
F......Page 270
L......Page 271
S......Page 272
Z......Page 273

✦ Subjects

Языки и языкознание;Лингвистика;Когнитивная лингвистика и лингвоконцептология;