What’s in (a) Label? Neural Origins and Behavioral Manifestations of Identity Avoidance in Language and Cognition

IF 0.6 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS
Evelina Leivada
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Abstract

The present work defends the idea that grammatical categories are not in- trinsic to mergeable items, taking as a departure point Lenneberg’s (1967, 1975) claim that syntactic objects are definable only contextually. It is ar- gued that there are four different strands of inquiry that are of interest when one seeks to build an evolutionarily plausible theory of labels and operation Label: (i) linguistic constraints on adjacent elements of the same type such as Repetition/Identity Avoidance ([*XX]), (ii) data that flout these constraints ([XX]), (iii) disorders that raise questions as to whether the locus of impairment is a categorial feature per se, and (iv) operation Label as a candidate for human uniqueness. After discussing categorial identity through these perspectives, this work first traces the origins and manifesta-tions of Identity Avoidance in language and other domains of human cog-nition, with emphasis on attention orienting. Second, it pro- poses a new processing principle, the Novel Information Bias, that (i) cap- tures linguistic Identity Avoidance based on how the brain decodes types and tokens and (ii) explains the universal fact that generally the existence of adjacent occur-rences of syntactically and/or phonologically identical tokens is severely constrained.
(a)标签中有什么?语言和认知中身份回避的神经起源与行为表现
本研究以Lenneberg(1967, 1975)提出的句法对象只能在语境中定义的观点为出发点,捍卫了语法范畴并非固有于可合并项的观点。有人认为,当一个人试图建立一个标签和操作标签的进化似是而非的理论时,有四种不同的调查线索是感兴趣的:(i)对相同类型的相邻元素的语言约束,如重复/身份回避([*XX]), (ii)藐视这些约束的数据([XX]), (iii)对损伤位点本身是否是一个类别特征提出质疑的障碍,以及(iv)作为人类独特性候选的操作标签。在通过这些观点讨论了范畴认同之后,本研究首先追溯了身份回避在语言和人类认知的其他领域的起源和表现,重点是注意导向。其次,它提出了一种新的处理原则,即新颖的信息偏差(Novel Information Bias),它(i)根据大脑如何解码类型和符号来描述语言身份回避,(ii)解释了一个普遍的事实,即通常在句法和/或语音上相同的符号相邻出现的存在受到严重限制。
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