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SUMMARY:Brown bag: Shimon Edelman
DESCRIPTION:Title: Verbal behavior without syntactic structures: beyond
	 Skinner and Chomsky\nSpeaker: Shimon Edelman\nAbstract: What does it
	 mean to know language? Since the Chomskian revolution\, the textbook
	 answer to this question has been: to possess a generative grammar that
	 exclusively licenses certain syntactic structures. Decades later\, not
	 even an approximation to such a grammar\, for any language\, has been
	 formulated; the idea that grammar is universal and innately specified
	 has proved barren; and attempts to show how it could be learned from
	 experience invariably come up short. To move on from this impasse\, we
	 must rediscover the extent to which language is like any other human
	 behavior: dynamic\, social\, multimodal\, patterned\, and purposive\,
	 its purpose being to promote desirable actions (or thoughts) in others
	 and self. Recent psychological\, computational\, neurobiological\, and
	 evolutionary insights into the shaping and structure of behavior may
	 then point us toward a new\, viable account of language.
LOCATION:Gates 122
UID:2016-11-15
STATUS:CONFIRMED
DTSTART:20161115T170000Z
DTEND:20161115T180000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161111T020652Z
ORGANIZER;CN=Jonathan Shi:http://www.cs.cornell.edu/~jshi/brownbag/
DTSTAMP:20260408T172627Z
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