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Fuster’s Cherries and Linguistic Trees

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 October 2008

Helmut Schnelle
Helmut Schnelle*
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Abstract

Bridging the gap between linguistic structure representations and neurocognitive representations is a difficult challenge. This article presents an outline of how a formally specified system of constituent structure grammar could be translated into a distributed hierarchy network of associated modules. A set of syntactic constituent rule units could be reinterpreted as complex neuronal modules, which interactively generate momentary binding associations. The iterating binding activity in the network corresponds to the syntactic structure representation of a given sentence.

Type
Focus: The Origin of Language
Information
European Review , Volume 16 , Issue 4 , October 2008 , pp. 483 - 495
Copyright
Copyright © Academia Europaea 2008

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