Induction, evolution and accountability
Harnad, Stevan (1976) Induction, evolution and accountability. In, Harnad, S, Steklis, H.D. and Lancaster, J.B. (eds.) UNSPECIFIED Origins and Evolution of Language andSpeech , Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 58 - 60.
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HARNAD: Let me just ask a question which everyone else who has been faithfully attending these sessions is surely burning to ask: If some rules you have described constitute universal constraints on all languages, yet they are not learned, nor are they somehow logically necessary a priori, how did language get that way? ---- CHOMSKY: Well, it seems to me that would be like asking the question how does the heart get that way? I mean we don't learn to have a heart, we don't learn to have arms rather than wings. What is interesting to me is that the question should be asked. It seems to be a natural question, everyone asks it. And we should ask, why people ask it.
| Item Type: | Book Section |
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| Additional Information: | in: Harnad, S., Steklis, H. D. & Lancaster, J. B. (eds.) (1976) Origins and Evolution of Language and Speech. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 280. http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Papers/Harnad/harnad76.induction.htm Address: New York NY |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Physical Sciences and Engineering > Electronics and Computer Science > Web & Internet Science |
| Item ID: | 253345 |
| Date Deposited: | 25 May 2000 |
| Last Modified: | 26 Apr 2013 02:12 |
| Contributors: | Harnad, Stevan (Author) Harnad, S (Editor) Steklis, H.D. (Editor) Lancaster, J.B. (Editor) |
| Date: | 1976 |
| Additional Information: | in: Harnad, S., Steklis, H. D. & Lancaster, J. B. (eds.) (1976) Origins and Evolution of Language and Speech. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 280. http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Papers/Harnad/harnad76.induction.htm Address: New York NY |
| Status: | Published |
| Publisher: | Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences |
| Further Information: | Google Scholar |
| ISI Citation Count: | 1 |
| URI: | http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/253345 |
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