Meaning in Flux

• Language and Brain Lab - Yale (October 27, 2017)
• Transcript and discussion available on YouTube site: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dwt2YFVmSwg

Streamed live on Jun 17, 2020

Linguistic theory has emphasized Humboldt’s “infinite use of finite means,” to the relative neglect of the “finite means,” i.e. the lexicon.  What does a language user store in the lexicon, and in what form?  We explore this question in the context of the Parallel Architecture (Jackendoff 1997, 2002; Culicover and Jackendoff 2005).  Within this outlook, lexical items are pieces of phonological, (morpho)syntactic, and semantic structures, and morphology is the grammar

University of California Television - San Diego

February 20,2015

Explor forms of language with very limited organization.  Such languages largely lack the familiar manifestations of syntactic structure, but they still manage to map between sound and meaning.  Examples include early stages of child language, stages in acquisition of second languages by adults, pidgins, “home sign” (the sign systems invented by deaf children with no sign language input), and “village signs.”

2003

Transcript available on Youtube site.