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The Harmonic Mind
Paul Smolensky
Géraldine Legendre
其他書名
From Neural Computation to Optimality-theoretic Grammar. Linguistic and philosophical implications
出版
Penguin Random House LLC
, 2010-04-16
主題
Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / General
Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / Psycholinguistics / General
Medical / Neurology
Medical / Neuroscience
Psychology / General
Psychology / Cognitive Psychology & Cognition
Psychology / Cognitive Neuroscience & Cognitive Neuropsychology
Science / Life Sciences / General
Science / Cognitive Science
ISBN
0262514540
9780262514545
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=ohvhQgAACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
Despite their apparently divergent accounts of higher cognition, cognitive theories based on neural computation and those employing symbolic computation can in fact strengthen one another. To substantiate this controversial claim, this landmark work develops in depth a cognitive architecture based in neural computation but supporting formally explicit higher-level symbolic descriptions, including new grammar formalisms. Detailed studies in both phonology and syntax provide arguments that these grammatical theories and their neural network realizations enable deeper explanations of early acquisition, processing difficulty, cross-linguistic typology, and the possibility of genomically encoding universal principles of grammar. Foundational questions concerning the explanatory status of symbols for central problems such as the unbounded productivity of higher cognition are also given proper treatment. The work is made accessible to scholars in different fields of cognitive science through tutorial chapters and numerous expository boxes providing background material from several disciplines. Examples common to different chapters facilitate the transition from more basic to more sophisticated treatments. Details of method, formalism, and foundation are presented in later chapters, offering a wealth of new results to specialists in psycholinguistics, language acquisition, theoretical linguistics, computational linguistics, computational neuroscience, connectionist modeling, and philosophy of mind.
