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ISBN: 9780262315913 | 440 pp. | October 1987

Topics

 AI/Computational Modelling
Computational Vision
Connectionism
Machine Learning and Vision
 Linguistics/Language
Ambiguity
Computational Linguistics
Discourse Analysis
Generative Grammar
Language
Language Acquisition
Lexical Functional Grammar
Linguistic Universal and Universal Grammar
Linguistics
Natural Language
Phonetics
Phonology
Prosody and Intonation
Psycholinguistics
Relational Grammar
Semantics
Speech Perception
Syntax
Word Meaning
 Neuroscience
Brain
Cognitive Neuroscience
Visual Anatomy and Physiology
 Philosophy of Mind
Explanation
Functionalism
Language of Thought
Logic
Modularity of Mind
 Psychology I: Foundations of Cognition
Depth Perception
Perception and Sensation
Vision
 Psychology II: High-Level Cognition
Knowledge
Knowledge Representation
Learning
Memory, Working
Mental Representation
Scientific Thinking

Modularity in Knowledge Representation and Natural-Language Understanding

Edited by Jay L. Garfield
Overview

The notion of modularity, introduced by Noam Chomsky and developed with special emphasis on perceptual and linguistic processes by Jerry Fodor in his important book The Modularity of Mind, has provided a significant stimulus to research in cognitive science. This book presents essays in which a diverse group of philosophers, linguists, psycholinguists, and neuroscientists—including both proponents and critics of the modularity hypothesis—address general questions and specific problems related to modularity.

Table of Contents

  1. Preface

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  2. Introduction

    PDF (1.7 MB)

  3. Introduction

    Jay L. Garfield

    PDF (967.3 KB)

  4. 1. Modules, Frames, Fridgeons, Sleeping Dogs, and the Music of the Spheres

    Jerry A. Fodor

    PDF (1.5 MB)

  5. 2. Against Modularity

    William Marsden-wilson and Lorraine Komisarjevsky Tyler

    PDF (2.8 MB)

  6. 3. Binding, Plausibility, and Modularity

    Kenneth Forster

    PDF (2.3 MB)

  7. 4. Context Effects and Lexical Processing: A Connectionist Approach to Modularity

    Michael K. Tanenhaus, Gary S. Dell and Greg Carlson

    PDF (2.7 MB)

  8. Introduction

    Steven Weisler

    PDF (900.9 KB)

  9. 5. The Autonomy of Syntax and Semantics

    James Higginbotham

    PDF (1.6 MB)

  10. 6. Levels of Meaning

    Norbert Hornstein

    PDF (1.9 MB)

  11. 7. Quantification, Ellipsis, and Logical Form

    Steven Weisler

    PDF (2.4 MB)

  12. 8. Categorial Grammar and Domain Specificity of Universal Grammar

    Michael Flynn

    PDF (1.6 MB)

  13. 9. Combinatory Grammars and Human Sentence Processing

    Mark Steedman

    PDF (2 MB)

  14. 10. The Components of Learnability Theory

    Jan Grimshaw

    PDF (512 KB)

  15. Introduction

    Mark Feinstein

    PDF (1.1 MB)

  16. 11. Modes and Modules: Multiple Paths to the Language Processor

    Patrick J. Carroll and Maria L. Slowiaczek

    PDF (2.5 MB)

  17. 12. Modularity and Interaction in Sentence Processing

    Gerry Altmann

    PDF (1.1 MB)

  18. 13. Modularity in the Syntactic Parser

    Amy Weinberg

    PDF (2 MB)

  19. 14. Modularity in Sentence Comprehension

    Charles Clifton, Jr., and Fernanda Ferreira

    PDF (1.7 MB)

  20. 15. Theories of Sentence Processing

    Lyn Frazier

    PDF (2 MB)

  21. 16. Mandatory Processing in Speech Perception: A Case Study

    Joanne L. Miller

    PDF (1.4 MB)

  22. Introduction

    Neil Stillings

    PDF (1 MB)

  23. 17. Modularity and Interaction of Brain Regions underlying Visuomotor Coordination

    Michael A. Arbib

    PDF (3.5 MB)

  24. 18. Marr's Theory of Vision

    Tyler Burge

    PDF (2.2 MB)

  25. 19. Modularity and Naturalism in Theories of Vision

    Neil Stillins

    PDF (2.4 MB)

  26. Bibliography

    PDF (1.8 MB)

  27. List of Authors

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  28. Index

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