Some Core Contested Concepts

Chomsky, Noam

doi:10.1007/s10936-014-9331-5

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“…Chomsky has often characterized language as "an organ of the body" and on a par with the digestive and immune systems [4]. He tries to account for the ability that children have to use language.…”

Section: The Origin Of Language-from Myth Philosophy and Biological mentioning

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Language Evolution in Biolinguistics from a Multi-Factor Perspective

Shao¹

2019

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Biolinguistics is an interdisciplinary subject derived from the interaction of biology and linguistics. In 1967, after the publication of Biological Foundations of Language by Lenneberg E.H., the vision of Language study has been introduced into the field of biology. Later, Chomsky proposed the term of language faculty and regarded language as "an organ of the body". Different from traditional linguists' description of the rules of language externalization, Chomsky focuses on the biological mechanism of internalized language. The challenge of theory of evolution in biology has also enriched the study of the origin and evolution of language. This thesis will begin with the mythological origin and philosophical foundation of language, chase the challenge of evolutionary theory, and discuss two groups of basic properties of language, which is unity and diversity, recursiveness and thinking, so as to further study the relation between language and its biological basis, that is, from language and speech organ, language and thought to language and gene, to analyze the uniqueness of human language competence.

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Section: The Origin Of Language-from Myth Philosophy and Biological mentioning

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Language Evolution in Biolinguistics from a Multi-Factor Perspective

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2019

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“…dentro de la teoría de la computabilidad, i.e. máquina de Turing, funciones recursivas,… (Chomsky, 2015).…”

Section: La Concepción Computacional Del Lenguaje: Chomskyunclassified

Dos concepciones del lenguaje: Wittgenstein y Chomsky en torno a la recursión como “buena” explicación de la naturaleza humana

Mota

2018

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En este artículo me propongo discutir si la propiedad de la recursión supone una buena explicación de la especificidad humana. Para ello, analizaré dos aproximaciones al estudio del lenguaje humano: las concepciones computacional y antropológica. La principal conclusión de este trabajo es doble. Por un lado, la recursión no es una buena explicación de la esencia humana. Por otro, lo que sí es específicamente humano es la construcción de una mitología, análoga a la metafísica, revestida en este caso con el lenguaje de la ciencia.

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“…In contrast, attempts to place the brain at the center of the language sciences have been met with suspicion and even ridicule, typically due to the observation that higher cognitive constructs like verb and phrase cannot presently be made commensurable with lowerlevel neurophysiological structures like dendrite and cortical column. Substantial engagement with the biology literature is a feature still lacking in departments of linguistics, despite the Minimalist Program's narrowing of the boundaries between the computational and conceptual capacities of humans and non-humans (Chomsky, , 2012(Chomsky, , 2015b.…”

Section: The Brain Dynamics Of Linguistic Computationmentioning

confidence: 99%