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	Ray Jackendoff - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Jackendoff's research deals with the semantics of natural language, its bearing on the formal structure of cognition, and its lexical and syntactic expression.
		In the fall of 2005, Jackendoff moved to Tufts University (Medford, MA), where he is Professor of philosophy, Seth Merrin Chair in the Humanities, and Co-Director of the Center for Cognitive Studies (along with Daniel Dennett).
		Jackendoff argues against a syntax-centered view of generative grammar (called syntactocentrism by him), at variance with earlier models such as Standard Theory 1968; Extended Standard Theory 1972; Revised Extended Standard Theory 1975; Government- Binding Theory 1981; Minimalist Program 1993, in which syntax is the sole generative component in the language.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ray_Jackendoff (441 words)

	Ray Jackendoff (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Jackendoff expands further than just David Marr's model, by stating that the perceived object is the result of a multitude of thoughts competing in our subconscious, producing our conscious thoughts.
		Basically, Jackendoff proposes that what we actually see is a result of the competition between all the possible images to which we could be paying attention; a certain object or small set of objects are given an extra weight in this competition by our paying extra attention to them.
		Jackendoff proposes that we are actually not conscious of those objects which are less vivid, including the trash, clothes, and lurking cockroach, until we give attention to them.
	www.princeton.edu /~freshman/science/crick/jackendoff.html (265 words)

	A Critical Study
		Jackendoff argues that, where language is concerned, abstract descriptions of phonology, syntax and semantics are indeed necessary to capture the required generalisations of both linguistic development and mature competence.
		Jackendoff’s position is genuinely novel and raises a host of problems for recent theories of generative grammar, especially as regards the lexicon and idioms.
		Jackendoff also tentatively suggests that the tripartite model may answer Chomsky’s concerns over the evolution of language: it is easier to understand the co-evolution of three components than the evolution of one ‘perfect’ component.
	www.uea.ac.uk /~j108/jackendoff.htm (4166 words)

	Languages of the Mind
		Jackendoff basis his argument on his Conceptual Well-Formedness Rules, that is rules that characterize the space of possible conceptual states - the resources available in the brain for forming concepts.
		Jackendoff pushes for psychodynamic phenomena to be studied in both their content and formal structure to conceive of a formal system underlying ordinary reasoning.
		Jackendoff proposes several different types of parsers which he claims may be similar to what the uses to determine such things as key and meter.
	homepage.mac.com /deyestone/jackendoff.html (1902 words)

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		When discussing the mental basis of culture, Jackendoff gently pokes fun of academic cliques and their distrust of outsiders, and this review is certainly from outside the linguists' world, and the book is written from outside the neuroscientists' world.
		Jackendoff leans to the Chomskian idea of a language organ specifically evolved (or appearing by some other means according to Chomsky himself) for processing language.
		At times, Jackendoff does say that these modules may arise from biases set by genetics and are then formed by learning in the environment, but he believes that these biases are large ones encoding a vast amount of innate knowledge specific to the language module.
	www.brainconnection.com /topics/?main=bkrev/jackendoff-patterns (897 words)

	Tufts Philosophy \| People \| Faculty \| Ray Jackendoff (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		He majored in mathematics at Swarthmore College, where he discovered he was not cut out to be a mathematician and, taking a big chance, applied to graduate schools in linguistics.
		In the course of working out the foundations for this enterprise, he has been drawn into research on visual cognition, music cognition, social cognition, consciousness, and the evolution of the language capacity, as well as more traditional issues for linguists such as syntax and the lexicon.
		In another of his lives, Jackendoff is a classical clarinetist, having performed as soloist with the Boston Pops and several other Boston area orchestras.
	ase.tufts.edu /philosophy/people/jackendoff.shtml (229 words)

	The Location of Consciousness (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		In contrast, Ray Jackendoff contends that consciousness lies somewhere in the intermediate levels and results from population dynamics.
		Jackendoff contends that conscious lies in the 2 1/2-D sketch and not in the 3D model, which would correspond to a higher level in the heirarchy.
		Furthermore, Jackendoff claims that the processing of the 2 1/2-D sketch is determined by selection from a population of possible thoughts.
	www.princeton.edu /~freshman/science/crick/location.html (702 words)

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		The book resumes Jackendoff's claim that phonology and syntax are key to the structure of meaning, then extends the framework developed for language to vision and music (hinting at a possible unification with Marr's theory of vision).
		Jackendoff's conceptual semantics is applied to lexical and syntactic expressions in English.
		Following Chomsky, Jackendoff thinks that the human brain contains innate linguistic knowledge and that the same argument can be extended to all facets of human experience: all experience is constructed by unconscious genetically determined principles that operate in the brain.
	www.thymos.com /mind/j.html (2649 words)

	Tufts Journal: Features: Brainy ideas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Last spring, Jackendoff and Maryanne Wolf, professor of child development and director of the Center for Reading and Language Research, arranged a workshop for elementary and middle school teachers on infusing their curricula with linguistics.
		The idea, said Jackendoff, is to give teachers knowledge about issues of language and language acquisition as well as tools for dealing with children who speak non-standard dialects and those with reading disabilities.
		Jackendoff initially set out to be a mathematician, and he majored in math as an undergraduate at Swarthmore College.
	tuftsjournal.tufts.edu /features/brainy_ideas.shtml (783 words)

	Ray Jackendoff (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Jackendoff, R. and Pinker, S. (2005) The nature of the language faculty and its implications for evolution of language (Reply to Fitch, Hauser, and Chomsky).
		Jackendoff, R. Foundations of Language: Brain, Meaning, Grammar, Evolution.
		Jackendoff, R. (1999) Possible stages in the evolution of the language capacity.
	www.isrl.uiuc.edu /~amag/langev/author/rjackendoff.html (60 words)

	The Causally Efficacious Psyche
		Jackendoff goes even further than Freud and than other cognitivist scholars in claiming that consciousness (in the sense of subjective awareness or the phenomenal mind as he terms it) has no efficacy, which means that it can have no impact upon the subconscious, computational mind whatsoever.
		Jackendoff has based his hypothesis partly upon empirical evidence for the striking importance of subconscious computation but even more on the philosophical consideration that any efficacy of consciousness would boil down to ‘magic’.
		As I see it, Ray Jackendoff was not able to show any flaw in my argumentation and even seriously considered a reductionist ‘escape route’ rather than admitting the dreaded ‘magical’ possibility of any type of conscious efficacy.
	www.newdualism.org /papers/T.Rivas/efficaciouspsyche.html (1909 words)

	Ray Jackendoff, Foundations of Language
		Jackendoff is very far from providing a detailed account of how language, as he conceives it, might be instantiated in the brain, but he is at least trying to move generative grammar in that direction.
		Jackendoff describes the language faculty as a collection of modular computational processes, which communicate with each other through message-passing interfaces with limited access to the processes' internal states.
		Jackendoff sketches a plausible, though of course speculative, series of stages between primate vocal calls and modern human language, in the course of which syntax emerges as a kind of monstrously swollen interface between semantics and phonology.
	cscs.umich.edu /~crshalizi/reviews/jackendoff-foundations (1531 words)

	Tenser, said the Tensor: Phrasal Templates
		Ray Jackendoff discusses this subject is at some length in Foundations of Language, and he includes an even more extreme example.
		Jackendoff says that the noun and preposition are fixed, with the two possibilities being heart out and head off, but I can think of at least one more: talk my ear off, which is on the borderline between his clearly idiomatic examples and an example with a literal reading like chewed his leg off.
		Next, Jackendoff mentions V one's way PP, as in drank his way across the country, and notes how it can be used with verbs that don't ordinarily take way as a direct object, and that it only works with verbs with no other arguments (i.e.
	tenser.typepad.com /tenser_said_the_tensor/2004/03/phrasal_templat.html (750 words)

	Giving to Tufts - New Chair brings influential linguist to Tufts
		With Ray Jackendoff's appointment as the Seth Merrin Professor, Tufts welcomes a leading cognitive theorist to its philosophy faculty and enhances its growing eminence in the study of the human mind.
		At the same time, Jackendoff joins University Professor Daniel Dennett, prominent philosopher of the mind, as co-director of the Center for Cognitive Studies.
		Jackendoff comes to Tufts from Brandeis University, where he taught for 34 years as professor and chairman of linguistics.
	www.tufts.edu /development/news/2006/jackendoff.html (380 words)

	Lerdahl and Jackendoff Revisited
		According to Lerdahl and Jackendoff, their goal is to specify the structure that “an experienced listener” infers in his hearing of a tonal piece (p.
		Due to the demand for strict hierarchy, Lerdahl and Jackendoff are treating all music as essentially homophonic; that is, they assume that a single grouping analysis suffices for all voices of a piece.
		Lerdahl and Jackendoff conceive their theory as being in principle testable by usual scientific standards; that is, subject to verification or falsification on various sorts of empirical grounds (p.
	www.cc.jyu.fi /~heivalko/articles/lehr_jack.htm (2821 words)

	John Benjamins: Contributions by Ray Jackendoff
		Ray Jackendoff is author/editor of the following titles.
		Ray Jackendoff is editor/board member of the following series.
		On Language and Consciousness, Jackendoff, Ray and Wallace Chafe, 1 ff.
	www.benjamins.com /cgi-bin/t_authorview.cgi?author=6164 (102 words)

	Language Log: JP versus FHC+CHF versus PJ versus HCF
		In the first half of the paper, we reiterate that profitable research into the biology and evolution of language requires fractionation of “language” into component mechanisms and interfaces, a non-trivial endeavor whose results are unlikely to map onto traditional disciplinary boundaries.
		Concerning evolution, we believe that Pinker and Jackendoff's emphasis on the past adaptive history of the language faculty is misplaced.
		In a continuation of the conversation with Fitch, Chomsky, and Hauser on the evolution of language, we examine their defense of the claim that the uniquely human, language-specific part of the language faculty (the “narrow language faculty”) consists only of recursion, and that this part cannot be considered an adaptation to communication.
	itre.cis.upenn.edu /~myl/languagelog/archives/002422.html (1627 words)

	Books: Languages of the Mind
		Over the past two decades, Ray Jackendoff has persistently tackled difficult issues in the theory of mind and related theories of cognitive processing.
		The final chapter takes up a long-standing conflict between philosophical and psychological approaches to the study of mind, arguing that mental representations should be regarded purely in terms of the combinatorial organization of brain states, and that the philosophical insistence on the intentionality of mental states should be abandoned.
		Ray Jackendoff is Professor of Linguistics at Brandeis University.
	cognet.mit.edu /library/books/view?isbn=0262100479 (294 words)

	Precis of: Foundations of Language: Brain, Meaning, Grammar, Evolution
		Of course, if UG – the ability to learn language – is in part a human cognitive specialization, it must be determined by some specifically human genes, which in turn had to have come into existence sometime since the hominid line separated from the other great apes.
		The standard account of this contrast (Talmy 2000, Verkuyl 1993, Pustejovsky 1995, Jackendoff 1997) is that the meaning of until is to set a temporal bound on an ongoing process.
		Jackendoff 1992, Culicover 1999, Culicover and Jackendoff 1995, 1997, 1999).
	bbsonline.cup.cam.ac.uk /Preprints/Jackendoff-07252002/Referees (8148 words)

	Annotation for Lerdahl, Fred, and Jackendoff, Ray (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		The latter consist of both well-formedness rules, which describe the minimal conditions for an intuitively understandable structure, and preference rules, which correspond to the intuitions that allow a listener to choose the preferred interpretation of the structure from all of the possible ones that conform to the well-formedness rules.
		The distinction between grouping structure and metrical structure is essential to Lerdahl and Jackendoff's conception of musical rhythm.
		The metrical structure, which exists only at levels relatively near the surface, is articulated by the regular hierarchical pattern of metrical accent, a psychological construct extrapolated from (but not necessarily identical to) the patterns of phenomenal accent in the music itself.
	www.music.indiana.edu /som/courses/rhythm/annotations/lerdahl83.html (270 words)

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		Jackendoff's conceptual semantics is applied to lexical and syn- tactic expressions in English.
		This collection of papers summarizes Jackendoff's formal theory on the nature of language and a modular approach to "mental ana- tomy", and applies the same concepts to learning and common sense reasoning.
		Jackendoff Ray: PATTERNS IN THE MIND (Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1993) Following Chomsky, Jackendoff thinks that the human brain con- tains innate linguistic knowledge and that the same argument can be extended to all facets of human experience: all experience is constructed by unconscious genetically determined principles that operate in the brain.
	www-ksl.stanford.edu /people/scaruffi/mind/part3.html (16934 words)

	:: dispatx art collective : the plague of language : interview with marc d. hauser :: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		One is, and it's purely a sociological phenomenon, independent of the science, and it's this - Steve Pinker and Ray Jackendoff and I are all good friends, and I've talked to them about this, and I could have written that paper with either Steve, or Ray, or the three of us.
		But some, and I think Jackendoff is one, think that the moves that Chomsky has been pushing in formal linguistics are incorrect, and moreover, function to sever the ties between linguistics and other aspects of the mind sciences.
		And the point was simply that, to me, Pinker and Jackendoff raised questions which we felt in our response to expressed a misunderstanding of the distinction - and maybe that was our fault.
	www.dispatx.com /issue/05/en/plaga/05.html (1122 words)

	Amazon.com: Languages of the Mind: Essays on Mental Representation: Books: Ray S. Jackendoff (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Languages of the Mind provides convenient access to Jackendoff's work over the past five years on the nature of mental representations in a variety of cognitive domains, in the context of a detailed theory of the level of conceptual structure developed in his earlier books, Semantics and Cognition and Consciousness and the Computational Mind.
		Ray Jackendoff is Professor in the Program in Linguistics and Cognitive Science at Brandeis University.
		Jackendoff has clearly articulated the where's and why's of mental representations and arrives at the conclusion that we need to acknowledge that we are just a product of biological evolution.
	www.amazon.com /Languages-Mind-Essays-Mental-Representation/dp/0262600242 (1025 words)

	Task-specificity and species-specificity in the study of language: A methodological note
		Jackendoff, R. Patterns in the mind: Language and human nature.
		Jackendoff, R. The architecture of the language faculty.
		Part of one’s linguistic knowledge is that a redcoat is a British soldier of the 1770s who wore a red coat, a yellowjacket is a kind of wasp with a yellow “jacket,” a redhead is a person with reddish hair, and that a flhead is a pimple with a fl “head,” and so on.
	www.let.rug.nl /~zwart/college/docs/minor/pinkerjackendoff.doc (12955 words)

	The Chronicle: 5/6/2005: Brandeis Linguistics Chairman Steps Over to Tufts; Dean of Medical School Is Named President ...
		Jackendoff got an offer from Tufts University, he decided that after 34 years at Brandeis, it was time to jump ship.
		His departure will leave the Brandeis program with just one remaining full-time professor, and she is currently on leave.
		Jackendoff, 60, the move is attractive in part because the universities are only 10 miles apart, and he won't have to find a new home.
	chronicle.com /free/v51/i35/35a00702.htm (761 words)

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