Article published in:
Biolinguistic Investigations on the Language Faculty
Edited by Anna Maria Di Sciullo
[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today 235] 2016
► pp. 41–54

Symbol taxonomy in biophonology

| Concordia University, Montréal
| Concordia University, Montréal
We present phonological parallels to Gallistel & King’s (2009) discussion of symbols, variables and function in animal cognition in order to take up Poeppel’s (2012) challenge to cognitive scientists to formulate their models in general computational terms that can potentially be translated into the kind of representational and computational behaviors that we might plausibly find in a nervous system.
Published online: 24 November 2016
https://doi.org/10.1075/la.235.02mat
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