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Language Menu

Introduction
Exploration
Tool for Communication
Explanation & Interpretation
Is Language Inherent?
Universality

Neurobiology
Biological Basis
Noam Chomsky
B.F. Skinner
Language Acquisition, Development
Critical Period
Lateralization
Localization
Plasticity
Constructionism/Selectivism

Psychology
The Controversy
Language
The Issues
The "Language Faculty"
Language as an Artifact
The Issues

Cultural Anthropology
Whorfian Theory
Linguistic Research
Cross-Cultural Wordplay
Dangerous Thoughts
Pinwheel of Color
Picture's Worth 1000 Words
Pluralizing the Difference
Discussion

Philosophy
Logical Empiricism
   Origins
   Connections
   Flaws
Ordinary Language Theory
Synthesis: New Theory



comments to:
pk10@duke.edu

It is a song .  It is a whisper.  It is a poem scribbled on a napkin.  It is a promise.
It is much more and much less.  It is language, and language is ideas.

This is a site dedicated to the study of language from four vantage points:
neurobiology, psychology, cultural anthropology, and philosophy.

Come read, play, think ... immerse yourself in our efforts.  Send us your thoughts.

 


Editor/Webmaster: Pooja Kumar pk10@acpub.duke.edu
Neurobiology: Bora Lee: bl6@acpub.duke.edu
Psychology: Malia Knezek: mbk4@acpub.duke.edu
Cultural Anthropology: Brian Skotko: bgs2@acpub.duke.edu
Philosophy: Marnie Riddle: mer6@acpub.duke.edu





The Muses
:-)



Exploring the Mind
Duke University
Durham, North Carolina
Fall 1997
http://www.duke.edu/~pk10/EM.htm