S. J. Cowley
2011
Taking a language stance
Ecological Psychology 23(3):185--209, 2011
Linguists tend to view language in terms of forms and their use. For historical reasons, speaking and listening are often ascribed to knowledge of a language system. Language behavior is seen as the production and processing of forms. Others contrast language to ...
2007
Distributed language: Biomechanics, functions, and the origins of talk
Emergence of Communication and Language, pages 105--127, 2007
Emphasizing that word-forms are culturally selected, the paper takes a distributed view of language. This is used to frame evidence that, in ontogenesis, language emerges under dual control by adult and child. Since parties gear to each other's biomechanics, norm- ...
How human infants deal with symbol grounding
Interaction Studies 8(1):83--104, 2007
Abstract: Taking a distributed view of language, this paper naturalizes symbol grounding. Learning to talk is traced to—not categorizing speech sounds—but events that shape the rise of human-style autonomy. On the extended symbol hypothesis, this happens as ...