Modularity in Knowledge Representation and Natural-Language Understanding

by Garfield, Jay L.

• ISBN13: 9780262570855
• ISBN10: 0262570858
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1991-03-01
• Publisher: Bradford Books

Summary

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. Jay L. Garfield is Associate Professor of Philosophy in the School of Communications and Cognitive Science at Hampshire College.

Table of Contents

Preface

Introduction

Modularity and Psychological Method

Introduction

Modules, Frames, Fridgeons, Sleeping Dogs, and the Music of the Spheres

Against Modularity

Binding, Plausibility, and Modularity

Context Effects and Lexical Processing: A Connectionist Approach to Modularity

Semantics, Syntax, and Learnability

Introduction

The Autonomy of Syntax and Semantics

Levels of Meaning

Quantification, Ellipsis, and Logical Form

Categorial Grammar and Domain Specificity of Universal Grammar

Combinatory Grammars and Human Sentence Processing

The Components of Learnability Theory

On-Line Processing

Introduction

Modes and Modules: Multiple Paths to the Language Processor

Modularity and Interaction in Sentence Processing

Modularity in the Syntactic Parser

Modularity in Sentence Comprehension

Theories of Sentence Processing

Mandatory Processing in Speech Perception: A Case Study

The Visual Module

Introduction

Modularity and Interaction of Brain Regions underlying Visuomotor Coordination

Marr's Theory of Vision

Modularity and Naturalism in Theories of Vision

Bibliography

List of Authors

Index

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