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RuCCS TECHNICAL REPORTS. December 1993. The Rutgers University Center for Cognitive Science (RuCCS) is issuing a series of technical reports of linguistic, psychological, philosophical, and computer-scientific interest. The following is a list of currently available reports, with brief descriptions. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Prices, given in US dollars, cover reproduction costs and 4th class postage in the continental US only. For the additional postage to other locations, inquire at admin(a)ruccs.rutgers.edu before ordering. All orders for TR's should be addressed to Sandra Bergelson (re: RuCCS-TR) Assistant Director, RuCCS Rutgers University PO Box 1179 Piscataway, NJ 08855. All checks and money orders should be made payable to Rutgers University. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ The reports are being made available by anonymous ftp from ruccs.rutgers.edu. Look in the directory /pub/papers/ and be sure to examine the file README in that directory to find out what's currently available and to obtain format information. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ RuCCS-TR #1-13 ::::::::::::::::::::::: TR-1. Alan Prince. In Defense of the Number i: Anatomy of a Linear Dynamical Model of Linguistic Generalizations. $6.30. The Goldsmith-Larson dynamical linear network model of stress and syllable structure is solved in closed form, and its principal properties are determined analytically; the first section of the report gives a qualitative summary and linguistic evaluation of the results. ::::::::::::::::::::::: TR-2. Alan Prince & Paul Smolensky. Optimality Theory: Constraint Interaction in Generative Grammar. $11.00. A grammar is a system of ranked, violable constraints on output representations. The constraints are universal; a grammar is given by a ranking of the universal constraint set. Issues in syllabic, prosodic, and segmental phonology are addressed. ::::::::::::::::::::::: TR-3. John McCarthy & Alan Prince. Prosodic Morphology I: Constraint Interaction and Satisfaction. $9.50. Prosodic effects on morphology emerge under Optimality Theory when phonological constraints are ranked above morphological constraints. Reduplication and associated phenomena in Axininca Campa are analyzed exhaustively from this perspective, and a general characterization of Prosodic Morphology is developed. ::::::::::::::::::::::: TR-4. Jane Grimshaw. Minimal Projection, Heads, and Optimality. $3.00. Complex patterns of verb placement and complementizer distribution follow from the interaction of four very general principles (e.g. `heads must be filled at s-structure', `functional projections must be functionally interpreted'), ranked under Optimality Theory. ::::::::::::::::::::::: TR-5. Stephen Stich & Ian Ravenscroft. What *is* Folk Psychology? $2.20. When a variety of different interpretations of `folk psychology' are properly distinguished, certain interpretations of the standard arguments for eliminative materialism are undermined. ::::::::::::::::::::::: TR-6. Jacob Feldman. Perceptual Categories and World Regularities. $9.50. TR-6 presents a formal theory of inductive categorization construed as a computational perceptual problem; and a series of experiments on human perceptual categorization that support the theory. ::::::::::::::::::::::: TR-7. John McCarthy & Alan Prince. Generalized Alignment. $3.60. Structural relations between grammatical categories (here, morphological and phonological) are governed by a single family of constraints under Optimality Theory: these demand that one type of grammatical constituent share a designated edge with some other type of constituent. Evidence is considered from footing patterns, infixability, epenthesis, syllabification, and prosodic subcategorization. ::::::::::::::::::::::: TR-8. Zenon Pylyshyn. Some Primitive Mechanisms underlying Spatial Attention. $2.30. TR-8 describes a research program investigating a theory of preattentive visual location indexing, with 4 different lines of psychophyical experimentation. ::::::::::::::::::::::: TR-9. Stephen Stich & Stephen Laurence. Intentionality & Naturalism. $2.20. Although the project of `naturalizing' intentional properties has been a central concern in recent philosophy of mind, nothing worrisome follows if it should turn out that intentional properties cannot be naturalized. ::::::::::::::::::::::: TR-10. Alan Leslie. Pretending and Believing: Issues in the theory of ToMM. $2.80. The normal capacity to acquire a commonsense ``theory of mind'' depends upon a specialized, domain-specific cognitive mechanism. ::::::::::::::::::::::: TR-11. Stephen Stich & Shaun Nichols. Second Thoughts on Simulation. $2.70. This paper distinguishes several different ways in which people might use off-line simulation in predicting and explaining each other's behavior, and argues that some of these strategies probably are used, while others are not. ::::::::::::::::::::::: TR-12. Alan Leslie. A Theory of Agency. $2.70. Our core notions of Agency reflect three different processing mechanisms arranged hierarchically; succeeding mechanisms interpret Agents' behavior at succeeding levels of representation -- the mechanical, the actional, and the cognitive -- where each level corresponds to a different subtheory of agency. ::::::::::::::::::::::: TR-13. Jerry Fodor. Concepts. $2.15. An informal but revisionist discussion of the role that the concept of a concept plays in current work in Cognitive Science.