Storage And Computation In The Language Faculty 1st Edition Sieb Nooteboom by Sieb Nooteboom, Fred Weerman, Frank Wijnen (auth.), Sieb Nooteboom, Fred Weerman, Frank Wijnen (eds.) 9781402005275, 9789401003551, 140200527X, 9401003556 instant download after payment.

Every now and again I receive a lengthy manuscript from a kind of theoretician known to psychiatrists as the "triangle people" - kooks who have independently discovered that everything in the universe comes in threes (solid , liquid, gas; protons, neutrons, electrons; the Father, the Son, the Holy Ghost ; Moe, Larry, Curly; and so on) . At the risk of sounding like a triangle person, let me explain why I think that the topic of this volume - - storage and computation in the language fac­ ulty - though having just two sides rather than three, is the key to understanding every interesting issue in the study of language. I will begin with the fundamental scientific problem in linguistics: explaining the vast expressive power of language. What is the trick behind our ability to filleach others' heads with so many different ideas? I submit there is not one trick but two, and they have been emphasized by different thinkers throughout the history of linguistics.