Eric Reuland
2010
Imagination, Planning, and Working Memory
Current Anthropology 51(S1):S99--S110, 2010
Imagination (leading to planning, culture,“theory of mind”) is a powerful property of the human mind. This article will focus on the relation between imagination, planning, and language. Language is a systematic mapping between arbitrary forms in a medium and ...
2009
Language-symbolization and Beyond
The Prehistory Of Language 11.0, 2009
The study of genesis and evolution of language is one of the most intriguing and challenging endeavors we have recently embarked on, since it touches on the foundations of our humanity. Understanding the issue requires intensive interdisciplinary collaboration ...
2008
Behavioral and Brain Sciences 31(5):531-532, 2008
I identify a number of problematic aspects of Christiansen & Chater's (C&C's) contribution. These include their suggestion that subjacency and binding reflect non-domain-specific mechanisms; that proto-language is a ; and that non-adaptationism requires overly rich innate ...MORE ⇓
I identify a number of problematic aspects of Christiansen & Chater's (C&C's) contribution. These include their suggestion that subjacency and binding reflect non-domain-specific mechanisms; that proto-language is a ; and that non-adaptationism requires overly rich innate structures, and is incompatible with acceptable evolutionary processes. It shows that a fully UG (Universal Grammar)-free version of the authors' neo-adaptationism would be incoherent.