The Modularity Issue in Language Acquisition: A Rapprochement? Comments on Gallistel and Chomsky.
The Modularity Issue in Language Acquisition: A Rapprochement? Comments on Gallistel and Chomsky.
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语言习得中的模块化问题：和解？
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10.1080/15475441.2011.605309
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2011
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Newport,ElissaL
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乔姆斯基（在本期）和加利斯特尔（在本期）回顾了人类语言和动物空间认知方面的研究，认为这些技能都有一个专门的认知模块支持，有自己独特的组织原则，与认知的其他方面有本质上的不同。在这篇评论中，我概述了一种对比鲜明的非模块化（或半模块化）人类语言观点，并认为这种替代观点与乔姆斯基和加利斯特尔的论点是一致的，而且考虑到我们目前的知识状况，这种观点同样是合理的；我为未来的研究提出了几个方向，以确定哪一个替代方案能更好地解释高层次认知的架构。
Chomsky (in this issue) and Gallistel (in this issue) review work on human language and on spatial cognition in animals, arguing that these skills are each supported by a specialized cognitive module with its own unique organization principles, different in kind from other aspects of cognition. In this commentary, I outline a contrasting non-modular (or semi-modular) view of human language and suggest that such an alternative is consistent with the arguments made by Chomsky and Gallistel and is equally plausible, given our present state of knowledge; and I suggest several directions for future research that are needed to determine which of the alternatives provides a better account of the architecture of high level cognition.