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Afferent isn't efferent, and language isn't logic, either

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 January 2004

Derek Bickerton
Affiliation:
Department of Linguistics, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI 96822 bickertond@prodigy.net
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Abstract

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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.

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Brief Report
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© 2003 Cambridge University Press