Bickerton Derek
Department of Linguistics, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI 96822
Behav Brain Sci. 2003 Jun;26(3):286-287. doi: 10.1017/S0140525X0325007X.
Hurford's argument suffers from two major weaknesses. First, his account of neural mechanisms suggests no place in the brain where the two halves of a predicate-argument structure could come together. Second, his assumption that language and cognition must be based on logic is neither necessary nor particularly plausible, and leads him to some unlikely conclusions.
赫福德的论点存在两个主要缺陷。首先,他对神经机制的描述并未表明在大脑中谓词-论元结构的两个部分能够汇聚到一起的位置。其次,他认为语言和认知必须基于逻辑的假设既非必要,也不太合理,还导致他得出了一些不太可能的结论。