creators_name: Josephson, Brian D.
creators_name: Blair, David G.
type: techreport
datestamp: 1999-03-16
lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:53:44
metadata_visibility: show
title: A Holistic Approach to Language
ispublished: pub
subjects: cog-psy
subjects: comp-sci-art-intel
subjects: comp-sci-lang
subjects: dev-psy
subjects: ling-learn
subjects: ling-prag
subjects: ling-sem
subjects: ling-syntax
subjects: phil-lang
full_text_status: public
keywords: language, development, language acquisition, functional grammar, syntax, semantics, holistic theories, creative intelligence
abstract: The following progress report views language acquisition as primarily the attempt to create processes that connect together in a fruitful way linguistic input and other activity. The representations made of linguistic input are thus those that are optimally effective in mediating such interconnections. An effective Language Acquisition Device should contain mechanisms specific to the task of creating the desired interconnection processes in the linguistic environment in which the language learner finds himself or herself. Analysis of this requirement gives clear indications as to what these mechanisms may be.
date: 1982-11
date_type: published
institution: Cambridge University
department: Theory of Condensed Matter Group, Department of Physics
refereed: FALSE
citation:   Josephson, Brian D. and Blair, David G.  (1982) A Holistic Approach to Language.  [Departmental Technical Report]     
document_url: http://cogprints.org/217/1/lang1.html
document_url: http://cogprints.org/217/4/lang1.ps