Totonac Categories of Smell

Creating a Comparative Dictionary of Totonac-Tepehua

We apply algorithms for the identification of cognates and recurrent sound correspondences proposed by Kondrak (2002) to the Totonac-Tepehua family of indigenous languages in Mexico. We show that by combining expert linguistic knowledge with computational analysis, it is possible to quickly identify a large number of cognate sets within the family. Our objective is to provide tools for rapid co...

Vowel Length and Coda Cluster Interactions in Misantla Totonac

The Smell of Representations

ingful and are expected to elicit robust and reproducible The nose and palate never doubt / Their verdict on the physiological and behavioral responses. All of the above world without, / But instantaneously condemn / Or may facilitate the correlation of stimuli with the neuronal, praise each fact that reaches them: / ... Compared with physiological, and behavioral response. almost any brute, / ...

The intentionality of smell

If any sense modality represents, vision does, but argument is needed to show that smell does. This paper rebuts two reasons for doubting that smell represents, and offers several arguments that it does. The paper then considers several recent proposals as to exactly what a smell represents, and defends a version of the author's original proposal-that a smell represents a miasma in the air-agai...

The Science of Smell

presented in the text can be readily appreciated by the informed layman without a complete comprehension of the mathematical treatment. The caliber of the theory and mathematics is unfortunately not reflected in its presentation, which is often brief and incomplete. This is a stimulating book and its chief value lies in its function as an introduction to theoretical biology and in the questions...