tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5275657281509261156.post7048348873868040762..comments2024-03-28T04:04:55.806-07:00Comments on Faculty of Language: May at the NSFNorberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15701059232144474269noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5275657281509261156.post-84665109767307118282013-06-20T07:48:25.621-07:002013-06-20T07:48:25.621-07:00Great discussion - thanks.
"Substitute FL fo...Great discussion - thanks.<br /><br />"Substitute FL for ‘the visual system’ above and you have more or less the current state of play in the cognitive neuroscience of language,"<br /><br />Marr just about inverts this in Ch. 1 (p. 28), pointing to linguistics as offering a model for building a computational theory absent an implementational account:<br /><br />"Perhaps it is not surprising that the very specialized empirical disciplines of the neurosciences failed to appreciate fully the absence of computational theory; but it is surprising that this level of approach did not play a more forceful role in the early development of artificial intelligence [...] Chomsky's (1965) theory of transformational grammar is a true computational theory in the sense defined earlier."<br /><br />He continues a few paragraphs later<br /><br />"The explanation [for how transformations factor in to comprehension, roughly -- JB] is simply that finding algorithms by which Chomsky's theory may be implemented is a completely different endeavor from formulating the theory itself."<br /><br />I take this latter point to offer a cautionary note to efforts to find a "merge circuit" or the like (<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.conb.2006.03.007" rel="nofollow">Friederici and Grodzinsky</a> push such a view in their 2006 review article), unless you adopt a Phillips-style parser/grammar isomorphism. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16306902083888759377noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5275657281509261156.post-60937513859426871432013-06-18T16:41:48.048-07:002013-06-18T16:41:48.048-07:00hyperventilating philosophers. :) hyperventilating philosophers. :) hhhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01842920098087151992noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5275657281509261156.post-42942344029825251572013-06-17T13:33:01.917-07:002013-06-17T13:33:01.917-07:00Norbert, thank you for the discussion and the link...Norbert, thank you for the discussion and the link, it's very informative!<br /><br />In case David or Greg is reading this, it'll be great if similar stuff could be discussed as part of this year's Neurobiology of Language.Nina Kazaninahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03583520327310961192noreply@blogger.com