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Pragmatic competence, autistic language use and the basic properties of human language
Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, Volume 53, Issue 3, Page 314-332, September 2023., 2023 Abstract The unique linguistic profile of autistic people urges linguists to address the divergences in human language, its acquisition and use among major linguistic perspectives. Fitting with the dual roles of language (thought and communication), this paper adopts an internal pragmatic competence (IPC) and a (similar) pragmatic competence for ...
Tiaoyuan Mao
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Language and learning: the cognitive revolution at 60‐odd
Biological Reviews, Volume 98, Issue 3, Page 931-941, June 2023., 2023 ABSTRACT Around the middle of the last century, the prevailing psychological paradigm of behaviourism was challenged by what is now known as the cognitive revolution. Behaviourists viewed learning as changes in patterns of behaviour through reinforcement. By contrast, advocates of the cognitive approach argued that such behavioural changes were outward
Johan J. Bolhuis +2 more
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Cognitive Theory of Mind Deficit Associated with Executive Dysfunction in Cervical Dystonia
Acta Neurologica Scandinavica, Volume 2023, Issue 1, 2023., 2023 Introduction. Cervical dystonia (CD) is viewed as a circumscribed movement disorder. However, beyond motor symptoms, it can imply subtle cognitive change, among others with respect to theory of mind (ToM) capacities. Here, affective and cognitive ToM performances and potential relations to other mental functions were investigated to refine the concept ...
Christin Kupper +5 more
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Language and scientific explanation: Where does semantics fit in? [PDF]
, 2020 This book discusses the two main construals of the explanatory goals of semantic theories. The first, externalist conception, understands semantic theories in terms of a hermeneutic and interpretive explanatory project. The second, internalist conception,
Asoulin, Eran
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Some thoughts on biolinguistics
Veritas (Porto Alegre), 2015 Naïve depictions of the biology of language are unable to treat the real complexity observed by biologists at all levels of analysis, and consequently they do not bring us closer to an accurate depiction of the nature of human language and the human mind. The aim of this essay is to show that if a real biolinguistics is intended to be achieved we ought
Cedrix Boeckx
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Knots, Language, and Computation: A Bizarre Love Triangle? Replies to Objections [PDF]
Biolinguistics, 2012 Sergio Balari +4 more
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Implicit learning of recursive context-free grammars [PDF]
, 2012 Context-free grammars are fundamental for the description of linguistic syntax. However, most artificial grammar learning experiments have explored learning of simpler finite-state grammars, while studies exploring context-free grammars have not ...
Johan J. Bolhuis +3 more
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Human and Non-Human Consciousness: Do They Share Common Characteristics?
RUDN Journal of Philosophy, 2023 This study examines the possible common characteristics between human and non-human consciousness. It mainly addresses animal consciousness and, to a certain extent, intelligent AI.
Evangelos Koumparoudi
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The shape of the human language-ready brain. [PDF]
Front Psychol, 2014 Boeckx C, Benítez-Burraco A.
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