Pathways of the Brain

The neurocognitive basis of language

Sydney M. Lamb | Rice University

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The brain is the organ of knowledge and organizer of our abilities, our means of recognizing a face in a crowd, of conversing about anything we experience or imagine, of forming thoughts and developing ideas, of instantly understanding words coming rapidly in conversation. How does it manage all this? Does it represent information in symbols or in the connectivity of a vast network?

Pathways of the Brain builds a theory to answer such questions. Using a top-down modeling strategy, it charts relationships among words and other products of the brain’s linguistic system to reveal properties of that system. Going beyond earlier linguistics, it sets three plausibility requirements for a valid neurocognitive theory: operational, developmental, and neurological: It must show how the linguistic system can operate for speaking and understanding, how it can be learned by children, and how it is implemented in neural structures. Unlike theories that leave linguistics isolated from science, it builds a bridge to biology.

Of interest to anthropologists, linguists, neurologists, neuroscientists, philosophers, psychologists, and any thoughtful person interested in language or the brain.

The author is Agnes Cullen Arnold Professor Emeritus of Linguistics and Cognitive Sciences.

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 170] 1999. xii, 418 pp.

Publishing status: Available
Published online on 23 June 2011

https://doi.org/10.1075/cilt.170

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments | p. ix

Preface | p. xi

Chapter 1. The Window of the Mind | p. 1

Chapter 2. Evidence of the First Two Kinds | p. 16

Chapter 3. The Stratification of Language | p. 34

Chapter 4. A Network of Relationships | p. 50

Chapter 5. Components of Relational Networks | p. 66

Chapter 6. Syntax | p. 84

Chapter 7. Building Models | p. 103

Chapter 8. Interacting Subsystems | p. 121

Chapter 9. Meaning | p. 141

Chapter 10. Building Connections | p. 162

Chapter 11. Traveling the Pathways | p. 180

Chapter 12. The Ever-Changing Network | p. 204

Chapter 13. Sources of Linguistic Patterning | p. 227

Chapter 14. Sequence Management | p. 248

Chapter 15. Linguistic Illusions | p. 273

Chapter 16. Introducing the Brain | p. 293

Chapter 17. Neurons and Nexions | p. 320

Chapter 18. The Anatomy of Language | p. 344

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