Brain, Language, and Linguistics

Brain, language, and linguistics.

During the past quarter of a century, Brain and Language (B & L) has recorded and stimulated research on the biological/neurological basis for human language. As noted in the Whitaker editorial in the first issue of the first volume (Whitaker, 1974), although for centuries scholars of different disciplines had been interested in the question of brain function and cognition, specifically languag...

Language, Music, and Brain

Introduction: Over the last centuries, scientists have been trying to figure out how the brain is learning the language. By 1980, the study of brain-language relationships was based on the study of human brain damage. But since 1980, neuroscience methods have greatly improved. There is controversy about where music, composition, or the perception of language and music are in the brain, or wheth...

Language, Linguistics and Cognition

Experimental research during the last few decades has provided evidence that language is embedded in a mosaic of cognitive functions. An account of how language interfaces with memory, perception, action and control is no longer beyond the scope of linguistics, and can now be seen as part of an explanation of linguistic structure itself. However, although our view of language has changed, lingu...

Linguistics and the Sacred Language of the Qur'an

Linguistics and Automated Language Processing

0.1 This paper is concerned with natural language, computers, and two groups of people interested in natural language: ]inguists, and persons engaged in computer processing of natural language data. There is some intersection of the latter sets, but the intersection is quite small relative to the size of the sets themselves and is thus inadequate to provide linguists with a proper perspective o...