Andrew Brown wrote Fair enough: and your list of interesting new work is inspiring. I'm glad I provoked it. But "doing psychology (and everything else) in the...
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Don Lindsay
donlindsay@...
Aug 1, 2001 11:55 am
Universal grammar isn't so much of a belief system as it is a research goal. Simply, it is the comparative study of grammar across cultural boundaries. The...
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Larry Trask
larryt@...
Aug 1, 2001 11:55 am
--On Tuesday, July 31, 2001 12:14 pm -0700 Don Lindsay ... I am entirely happy with UG as a goal of research. And UG is indeed occasionally presented as no...
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Furolo Joseph
jfurolo@...
Aug 2, 2001 6:00 am
I thought others on this list may enjoy reading an exerpt from Diderot's "The Salon of 1767" which he wrote after his publishing of the Encyclopedia. An...
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Mark Flinn
FlinnM@...
Aug 2, 2001 6:00 am
In response to Ian Pitchford's response... I agree wholeheartedly with his inclusive perspective. Let's all work together. That said, I have seen a long...
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Wayne R. Dynes
wrdynes@...
Aug 2, 2001 6:02 am
Some thirty years ago Chomsky published a little book "Cartesian Linguistics" that sought to detect a pedigree for his UG grammar theories in the rationalism...
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A B Carter
abc@...
Aug 2, 2001 6:03 am
What is the present day status of the second restriction Larry Trask mentions for UG? [UG] cannot be derived from such non-grammatical factors as general ...
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John Limber
limber@...
Aug 2, 2001 6:04 am
... Yes but Chomsky had deeper interests in universals of language than just advocating the study of comparative grammar. This was interwoven with ...
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Ian Pitchford
ian.pitchford@...
Aug 2, 2001 6:33 am
BBC NEWS ONLINE Thursday, 2 August, 2001, 01:45 GMT 02:45 UK Meet the Neanderthals By BBC News Online's Helen Briggs Reconstructions of Neanderthal skulls add...
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Ian Pitchford
ian.pitchford@...
Aug 2, 2001 6:33 am
Nature Science Update Population set to decline The world's population may peak by 2070. 2 August 2001 ERICA KLARREICH The past century's world population...
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Ian Pitchford
ian.pitchford@...
Aug 2, 2001 6:33 am
Neanderthals weren't human, say scientists New research suggests Ice-age Neanderthals were not our close relatives but a completely different species. Until...
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Ian Pitchford
ian.pitchford@...
Aug 2, 2001 7:13 am
Skull structure: The making of Neanderthals http://www.nature.com/nature/links/010802/010802-1.html Computerized analysis of the skulls of Neanderthals and of...
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Andrew Brown
alloneword@...
Aug 2, 2001 11:30 am
On Wednesday, August 01, 2001, at 9:14:52, Ian Pitchford wrote: [first a long and really informative response to my challenge, for which many thanks.] IP> If...
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Ian Pitchford
ian.pitchford@...
Aug 2, 2001 11:30 am
Mark Flinn wrote: But a lot of effort seems to go into academic territorial names. There are substantial political battles over what to call the Common...
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Roger Lass
lass@...
Aug 2, 2001 11:31 am
A few points. 1. Cartesian Linguistics was roundly discredited in a review in Language by Hans Aarsleff, and it is not taken seriously by historians of...
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Larry Trask
larryt@...
Aug 2, 2001 11:31 am
--On Wednesday, August 1, 2001 11:16 am +0000 "Wayne R. Dynes" ... Right. Let's talk about this. In Europe, it has always been the tradition that...
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Larry Trask
larryt@...
Aug 2, 2001 1:39 pm
--On Wednesday, August 1, 2001 2:08 pm +0000 A B Carter <abc@...> ... It is regarded by Chomskyans as crucial. If the features of UG can be derived from...
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Roger D. Masters
roger.d.masters@...
Aug 2, 2001 1:39 pm
Diderot's views on human "nature" and the role of habit, belief, and behavior are useful to recall, not only because of their great influence in 18th century...
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Lionel Tiger
ltiger@...
Aug 2, 2001 3:27 pm
Forgive me for wearily noting that you make the common mistake of omitting my Men in Groups (1969) and Fox's and my The Imperial Animal of 1971 in this ...
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Wayne R. Dynes
wrdynes@...
Aug 2, 2001 5:18 pm
My two respondents seem to have missed several important points. In my first posting I acknowledged the defect that persuaded Chomsky not to permit "Cartesian...
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Mark Flinn
FlinnM@...
Aug 2, 2001 8:24 pm
The discussions of Chomsky are informative and brilliant. Other more recent works -- e.g., Pinker, Bickerton, etc.-- seem more germane, however, to the...
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Philippe Gouillou
pg@...
Aug 2, 2001 8:25 pm
Bonjour, Some sentences of Diderot and Rousseau are very "modern" under the view of evol-psych (*personal* translation under each passage) : DIDEROT :...
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Jack Parsons
jackparsons@...
Aug 3, 2001 7:49 am
Dear colleagues, As an octogenarian who has steeped himself in human population studies for some 40 years, the item on this topic culled by Ian (02/08/01:...
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James Brody
JBJbrody@...
Aug 3, 2001 7:50 am
In a message dated 8/2/2001 11:29:12 AM Eastern Daylight Time, ltiger@... writes: << I am happy with the catch-alls "Evolution and Human Behavior" and...
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Ian Pitchford
ian.pitchford@...
Aug 3, 2001 8:07 am
The Times Literary Supplement This week the TLS focuses on Natural History; butterflies, treeshrews, amphibians and reptiles all come under the microscope, and...
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Ian Pitchford
ian.pitchford@...
Aug 3, 2001 8:07 am
Science Volume 293, Number 5531, Issue of 3 Aug 2001, pp. 868-872. http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/293/5531/868 Stereotyped Position of Local...
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Ian Pitchford
ian.pitchford@...
Aug 3, 2001 8:07 am
Science Volume 293, Number 5531, Issue of 3 Aug 2001, pp. 807-808. ESSAYS ON SCIENCE AND SOCIETY: Defining Disease in the Genomics Era Larissa K. F. Temple,...
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Ian Pitchford
ian.pitchford@...
Aug 3, 2001 8:07 am
Science Volume 293, Number 5531, Issue of 3 Aug 2001, pp. 809-810 http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/summary/293/5531/809 HUMAN BIOLOGY: Evolution and Our...
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Ian Pitchford
ian.pitchford@...
Aug 3, 2001 8:12 am
Neuron Vol. 31, No. 2, August 2001 http://journals.bmn.com/journals/list/latest?jcode=neuron Recovering Meaning Left Prefrontal Cortex Guides Controlled...
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Ian Pitchford
ian.pitchford@...
Aug 3, 2001 8:12 am
British Medical Journal bmj.com: http://bmj.com/ This issue's table of contents: http://bmj.com/content/vol323/issue7307/ Press Releases for this issue: ...
