Summary

These essays by some of the most prominent figures in linguistics, artificial intelligence, and psychology explore the problems involved in creating a general cognitive science that will treat language, thought, and behavior in an integrated fashion. They address the fundamental questions of the relations between linguistic structures and cognitive processes, between cognitive processes and language behavior, and between language behavior and linguistic structure.ContentsIntroduction, Thomas G. Bever (Columbia University), John M. Carroll and Lance A. Miller (IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center) - Philosophy and Linguistics: An Outline of Platonist Grammar, Jerrold J. Katz (CUNY) - Sense and Reference in a Psychologically Based Semantics, Ray Jackendoff (Brandeis University) - Some Thoughts on the Boundaries and Components of Linguistics, Charles J. Fillmore (University of California, Berkeley) - Psychology: Approaches to the Study of the Psychology of Language, Walter Kintsch (University of Colorado) - Toward An Abstract Performance Grammar, Charles E. Osgood (University of Illinois) - Upgrading a Mind, David Premack (University of Pennsylvania) - Computational Models: Memory, Meaning, and Syntax, Roger Schank (Yale University) and Lawrence Birnbaum (Yale University) - Some Inadequate Theories of Human Language Processing, Mitchell P. Marcus (AT&T Bell Laboratories)