From Models to Modules: Studies in Cognitive Science from the McGill Workshops [Hardcover]

The chapters in this volume are the result of a series of Cognitive Sciences Workshops held at McGill University. Each workshop was organized around a different theme and each of these topics is represented in the volume: language acquisition and development; text and text processing; computer chess; grammars, parsers, and language comprehension; scientific reasoning and problem solving; language and the brain; and semantics. The topics are approached from the perspectives of linguistics, psychology, philosophy, computer science, and neurology.

Preface
Introduction
PART I. LANGUAGE ACQUISITION AND DEVELOPMENT
The Acquisition of Grammar, Brian MacWhinney and John Anderson
Theoretical Issues in the Investigation of Words of Internal Report, William S. Hall and William E. Nagy
Some Relations Between Children's Knowledge of Metalinguistic and Metacognitive Verbs and Their Linguistic Competencies, David R. Olson and Nancy G. Torrance
PART II. TEXT AND TEXT PROCESSING
An Interaction Between Morphology and Discourse, Joseph E. Grimes
Robot Plans and Human Plans: Implications for Models of Communication, Bertram Bruce
PART III. GRAMMARS, PARSERS, AND LANGUAGE COMPREHENSION
The Mapping Between Grammar and Processor, Lyn Frazier. Modularity and Lexical Access, Mark S. Seidenberg and Michael K. Tanenhaus
PART IV. SCIENTIFIC REASONING AND PROBLEM SOLVING
The Organization of Medical Disorders in the Memories of Medical Students and General Practitioners, Georges Bordage
Cognitive Factors in Programming: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly, Elliot Soloway and Kate Ehrlich
PART V. LANGUAGE AND THE BRAIN
The Optimal Level of Abstraction for Models of Cerebral Representation of Language Processes: The State of the Question, Michel Paradis
A Plea for Neutral Monism from Aphasiology, Marc L. Schnitzer. Language, the Mind, and Psychophysical Parallelism, Hugh W. Buckingham, Jr.
A Philosopher Looks at the Current Debate on Language AcquislcË