The Harmonic Mind, Volume 2: From Neural Computation to Optimality-Theoretic Grammar Volume II: Linguistic and Philosophical Implications

by Géraldine Legendre and Paul Smolensky

Book Overview

Despite their apparently divergent accounts of higher cognition, cognitive theories based on neural computation and those employing symbolic computation can in fact strengthen one another. To substantiate this controversial claim, this landmark work develops in depth a cognitive architecture based in neural computation but supporting formally explicit higher-level symbolic descriptions, including new grammar formalisms. Detailed studies in both phonology...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262514540
• ISBN13: 9780262514545
• Release Date: January 2011
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 636 Pages
• Weight: 2.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.7" x 9.6"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher