12 Nov
2012
12 Nov
'12
10:01 a.m.
The CEU Department of Cognitive Science cordially invites you to a talk
(as part of its Departmental Colloquium series)
by
Manfred Bierwisch
Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft
Date: MONDAY, Nov 12, 2012 - 13:30 - 15:10
Location: Department of Cognitive Science, CEU, Frankel Leó út 30-34.,
Room 206!!!!
Brain and Language: Conditions and Limits to understand their Relation
Manfred Bierwisch (Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft)
Abstract
The human brain is the necessary material basis of natural language. In
spite of the general consensus about this basic dependency, there is
fairly limited understanding of how this relation comes about and what
it consists in. This lack of understanding concerns general conditions
of acquisition as well as activation and use of linguistic knowledge.
Assuming that Hebbian learning and spreading activation are plausible,
perhaps necessary, but apparently insufficient assumptions about
principles of language behaviour, four types of impasses will be
discussed, showing the gap of understanding with respect to the material
basis of the Language Faculty: a) The structure of words, b) the
acquisition of words, c) the recurrence of words, and d) the
sound-meaning-incongruity. It will be argued that these impasses are not
marginal, but characteristic properties of language, the structure of
which has to be taken into account in order to come to grips with the
nature of language. It might be noted that this sort of incompleteness
is the natural situation in many fields of scientific exploration.
We're looking forward to see you there (Frankel Leo u. 30-34) !
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