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Title: Three-Dimensional Constraints on Human Cognition as Expressed in Human Language
Language: English
Authors: Adam, Christopher C.
Source: ProQuest LLC. 2015Ph.D. Dissertation, University of New Mexico.
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Page Count: 219
Publication Date: 2015
Document Type: Dissertations/Theses - Doctoral Dissertations
Descriptors: Languages, Cognitive Processes, Linguistic Theory, Information Processing, Cognitive Science, Computational Linguistics, Artificial Intelligence, Recall (Psychology), Geometry
ISBN: 978-1-339-45803-8
Abstract: Those advocating the existence of a distinct language instinct generally claim that human language is not reliant on general human cognition. However, limitations on recursive patterns in human language are universally attested, from the micro-level elements of phonology, throughout the mid-level elements of morphology and syntax, and up to the macro-level elements of grammatical reference in discourse. What these limitations appear to reveal is a pattern seen in other areas of human cognition, namely the human inability to actively recall and balance more than three interdependent variables at a time. Building upon these data patterns and an array of typological postulates, the theory developed in this work offers an alternative lens through which to view language as a landscape of three-dimensional cube patterns which routinely simplify to the two-dimensional square level but never venture up to the four-dimensional tesseract level. Since a better understanding of how the human mind processes information can come by way of knowing how the human mind does not process information, the findings in this study, if borne out herein and beyond, promise to additionally inform cognitive science, computational linguistics, and artificial intelligence. [The dissertation citations contained here are published with the permission of ProQuest LLC. Further reproduction is prohibited without permission. Copies of dissertations may be obtained by Telephone (800) 1-800-521-0600. Web page: http://www.proquest.com/en-US/products/dissertations/individuals.shtml.]
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