Robert Levine教授講演会のお知らせ (お茶大 理学部3号館 5/25 15:00-)

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Yusuke Kubota

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以下の要領で、講演会を開催します。

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窪田悠介
(筑波大学)

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日時: 5月25日 (金) 15:00-16:30

場所: お茶の水女子大学 理学部3号館ラウンジ 205

講演題目: 'Biolinguistics': Some foundational problems

講師: Robert Levine (Ohio State University)

要旨:
The 'Biolinguistics' program seeks to establish specific
neuroanatomical models corresponding to the representations and
operations characterizing the species-specific language faculty in
human beings. Yet after decades of research, no neural structures
corresponding to specific linguistic structures, rules, constraints or
principles have ever been identified. A key to biolinguistics' failure
is, I suggest, its long-term adherence to two dubious assumptions: (i)
a kind of literalism in envisaging the relationship between neural
anatomy and linguistic representations, reflecting a serious
misconstrual of Marr's (1982) tripartite division of cognition, and
(ii) a view of such representations as objects fundamentally different
from other components of human cognitive capacity. (ii) rests on the
premise that phrase markers are the optimal formal representation of
natural language sentences, despite major empirical difficulties that
syntactic accounts based on hierarchical phrase structure face in
handling a wide variety of grammatical patterns, including
non-canonical coordinations and ellipsis constructions. In contrast,
proof-theoretic approaches such as type-logical grammar do not face
these difficulties, and their foundational assumptions link language
to the higher-order cognitive functions supporting deductive
reasoning. This conclusion offers a very promising alternative to the
current, essentially result-free 'Biolinguistic' paradigm.

※本講演会の開催はJSPS科研費15K16732の助成を受けています。

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