title: A Holistic Approach to Language
creator: Josephson, Brian D.
creator: Blair, David G.
subject: Cognitive Psychology
subject: Artificial Intelligence
subject: Language
subject: Developmental Psychology
subject: Learnability
subject: Pragmatics
subject: Semantics
subject: Syntax
subject: Philosophy of Language
description: The following progress report views language acquisition as primarily the attempt to create processes that connect together in a fruitful way linguistic input and other activity. The representations made of linguistic input are thus those that are optimally effective in mediating such interconnections. An effective Language Acquisition Device should contain mechanisms specific to the task of creating the desired interconnection processes in the linguistic environment in which the language learner finds himself or herself. Analysis of this requirement gives clear indications as to what these mechanisms may be.
date: 1982-11
type: Departmental Technical Report
type: NonPeerReviewed
format: text/html
identifier: http://cogprints.org/217/1/lang1.html
format: application/postscript
identifier: http://cogprints.org/217/4/lang1.ps
identifier:   Josephson, Brian D. and Blair, David G.  (1982) A Holistic Approach to Language.  [Departmental Technical Report]     
relation: http://cogprints.org/217/