R. F. Port
2010
Language as a Social Institution: Why Phonemes and Words Do Not Live in the BrainPDF
Ecological Psychology 22(4):304--326, 2010
It is proposed that a language, in a rich, high-dimensional form, is part of the cultural environment of the child learner. A language is the product of a community of speakers who develop its phonological, lexical, and phrasal patterns over many generations. The ...
Rich memory and distributed phonologyPDF
Language Sciences 32(1):43--55, 2010
It is claimed here that experimental evidence about human speech processing and the richness of memory for linguistic material supports a distributed view of language where every speaker creates an idiosyncratic perspective on the linguistic conventions of the ...