Utrecht Institute of Linguistics, Utrecht University, 3512 JK Utrecht, The Netherlands.
Department of Linguistics and Philosophy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
Trends Cogn Sci. 2015 Dec;19(12):729-743. doi: 10.1016/j.tics.2015.09.008. Epub 2015 Nov 10.
There are many questions one can ask about human language: its distinctive properties, neural representation, characteristic uses including use in communicative contexts, variation, growth in the individual, and origin. Every such inquiry is guided by some concept of what 'language' is. Sharpening the core question--what is language?--and paying close attention to the basic property of the language faculty and its biological foundations makes it clear how linguistics is firmly positioned within the cognitive sciences. Here we will show how recent developments in generative grammar, taking language as a computational cognitive mechanism seriously, allow us to address issues left unexplained in the increasingly popular surface-oriented approaches to language.
其独特的属性、神经表现、包括在交际语境中的使用特征、变化、个体的成长以及起源。每一个这样的探究都以某种“语言”的概念为指导。通过深化核心问题——语言是什么？——并密切关注语言能力的基本属性及其生物基础，可以清楚地了解语言学在认知科学中的定位。在这里，我们将展示生成语法的最新发展，认真对待语言作为一种计算认知机制，如何使我们能够解决在日益流行的语言表面导向方法中未得到解释的问题。
