Pathways of the Brain
The neurocognitive basis of language
| Rice University
The brain is the organ of knowledge and organizer of our abilities, our means of recognizing a face in a crowd, of conversing about anything we experience or imagine, of forming thoughts and developing ideas, of instantly understanding words coming rapidly in conversation. How does it manage all this? Does it represent information in symbols or in the connectivity of a vast network?
Pathways of the Brain builds a theory to answer such questions. Using a top-down modeling strategy, it charts relationships among words and other products of the brains linguistic system to reveal properties of that system. Going beyond earlier linguistics, it sets three plausibility requirements for a valid neurocognitive theory: operational, developmental, and neurological: It must show how the linguistic system can operate for speaking and understanding, how it can be learned by children, and how it is implemented in neural structures. Unlike theories that leave linguistics isolated from science, it builds a bridge to biology.
Of interest to anthropologists, linguists, neurologists, neuroscientists, philosophers, psychologists, and any thoughtful person interested in language or the brain.
The author is Agnes Cullen Arnold Professor Emeritus of Linguistics and Cognitive Sciences.
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 170] 1999. xii, 418 pp.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
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Acknowledgments
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ix
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Preface
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xi
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Chapter 1. The Window of the Mind
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1
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Chapter 2. Evidence of the First Two Kinds
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16
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Chapter 3. The Stratification of Language
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34
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Chapter 4. A Network of Relationships
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50
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Chapter 5. Components of Relational Networks
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66
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Chapter 6. Syntax
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84
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Chapter 7. Building Models
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103
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Chapter 8. Interacting Subsystems
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121
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Chapter 9. Meaning
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141
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Chapter 10. Building Connections
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162
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Chapter 11. Traveling the Pathways
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180
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Chapter 12. The Ever-Changing Network
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204
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Chapter 13. Sources of Linguistic Patterning
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227
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Chapter 14. Sequence Management
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248
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Chapter 15. Linguistic Illusions
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273
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Chapter 16. Introducing the Brain
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293
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Chapter 17. Neurons and Nexions
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320
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Chapter 18. The Anatomy of Language
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344
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Epilog
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370
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Appendix
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375
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Notes
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381
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References
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389
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Index
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399
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