mccarthy@cca.CCA.COM (Dennis McCarthy) (05/05/87)
There seems to be a fundamental disagreement between linguists and cognitive scientist over task-specific cognitive mechanisms for language, particularly for language acquisition. Linguists generally assume such mechanisms. However, recent proposals for the architecture of cognition (e.g. ACT*, Soar) do not include special mechanisms for language. Their authors claim that all cognitive functions, including language, are achieved by the general mechanisms of their architectures. Does anyone know of a book or article that contains an analysis of the arguments for both points of view?