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Plus or Minus 30 Years in the Language Sciences
Author(s) -
Newport Elissa L.
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
topics in cognitive science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.191
H-Index - 56
eISSN - 1756-8765
pISSN - 1756-8757
DOI - 10.1111/j.1756-8765.2010.01102.x
Subject(s) - psycholinguistics , language and communication technologies , cognition , cognitive linguistics , cognitive science , linguistics , applied linguistics , language technology , quantitative linguistics , computational linguistics , psychology , sociology , comprehension approach , language education , philosophy , neuroscience
The language sciences—Linguistics, Psycholinguistics, and Computational Linguistics—have not been broadly represented at the Cognitive Science Society meetings of the past 30 years, but they are an important part of the heart of cognitive science. This article discusses several major themes that have dominated the controversies and consensus in the study of language and suggests the most pressing issues of the future. These themes include differences among the language science disciplines in their view of numbers and symbols and of modular and distributed cognition , and the need for an increasing prominence of questions concerning language and the brain .