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Jabberwocky: The Slithy Toves Slay Words and Rules| title | Jabberwocky: The Slithy Toves Slay Words and Rules |
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| start_date | 2022/09/21 |
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| schedule | 10h30-13h - Heure de Tucson |
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| online | yes |
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| visio | https://arizona.zoom.us/j/83059854210 |
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| location_info | En ligne |
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| summary | Speakers of a language produce and understand sentences they have never heard before. The usual explanation of this ability supposes that we memorize the words of a language and generate sentences from them – see Pinker’s Words and Rules and the research program it spawned. Evidence from brains and behavior – and Jabberwocky -- suggests instead that we generate the words and memorize the sentences. A more compelling explanation dissolves the distinction between memory and generation and identifies a (generative) grammar as the way in which brains store a potentially infinite set of words and sentences. We will review linguistically sensitive MEG research that motivates and supports this conclusion. |
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| responsibles | Piatelli-Palmarini, Chomsky, Bever |
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| submitted | published | | 2022/09/09 12:27 UTC |
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