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| Preface to the second edition Acknowledgments for the first edition Introduction Chomsky's achievement On heroes and influences 1 The mirror Of the mind Linguistics as a science The nature of idealization Common sense Modularity Double dissociation Modules and quasi-modules Intelligence and "learning" Competence and performance Competence and grammar Rules I-language and E-language Performance, parsing, and pragmatics Parsing considerations Pragmatic considerations Competence and performance versus I-language and E-language Evolution and innateness Language acquisition Poverty of the stimulus Word meaning Universals Natural language and the language of thought Summary 2 The linguistic foundation Introduction Knowledge of language The lexicon Knowledge of structure Knowledge of structural relations Levels of representation Constituents and rules Deep structure Description versus explanation From rules of principles The elimination of PS rules X-bar theory Government and Binding theory Binding theory Locality Theta theory Case theory and government Empty categories The status of transformations Principles and parameters Lexical and functional categories Minimalism Economy The elements of Minimalism Perfect syntax A historical progression Evolution 3 Psychological reality Causality and observability Psychological reality and the nature of evidence Intuitions Language processing The derivational theory of complexity Grammars and parsers Parsing problems Economy Language acquisition (Plato's problem) Teaching versus learning Learning versus growing Parameter setting The critical period hypothesis Maturation Language pathology Agenesis of the corpus callosum The polyglot savant Specific language impairment (SLI) Connectionism: the behaviorists strike back 4 Philosophical realism: commitments and controversies Commitments Realism I-language revisited Representation and computation Naturalism Mentalism Tacit knowledge The mind-body problem Controversies Language and the world Language and the community Language and the individual Problems of semantics Innateness Unification and reduction Conclusions 5 Language and freedom Explanation and dissent: the common threads Relentless dissent Common sense and theory Rationality, modularity, and creativity Rationality Modularity Malleability and plasticity Creativity The anarchist background The Encyclopefistes The critique of (American) foreign policy Vietnam East Timor 9-11: terrorism and the "war on terror" The critique of domestic policy Pig farming in Haiti Drug trafficking The critique of media control Murder Third world elections The treason of the intellectuals The technique of dissection The exposure of warped perspective The exposure of suppressed precursor events The exposure of debased language Moral absolutes and options for the future The Faudsson affair Islamic fundamentalism Authority The positive program Conclusion Envoi Notes Bibliography Index |
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