In considering the question of how the human capacity to learn and use grammar could have evolved, a great deal depends on the characterization of the nature of grammar. In recent years the debate has been dominated by those who believe that grammar consists of rigid, categorical rules and structures of such a remove from the spoken language that children could not learn them from the input ava...

A developmental-evolutionary perspective is used to synthesize basic research from the neurosciences, ethology, genetics, and developmental psychology into a unified framework for understanding the nature and origins of social anxiety and avoidant personality disorder. Evidence is presented that social anxiety disorder (social phobia) and avoidant personality disorder may be alternate conceptua...

This article reports on our experience with developing multilingual grammar resources for natural language generation. We employ a strong notion of multilinguality: (i) Grammars for different languages share their overall organization, as well as those descriptions that reflect similarities between languages, and (ii) a single realization engine is used to generate with these grammars. This str...

The recitation of creeds in corporate worship is widespread the Christian tradition. Intuitively, use captures belief not only individuals reciting it, but Church as a whole. This paper seeks to provide philosophical analysis meaning words, ‘We believe…’, context liturgical Creed. Drawing from recent work group ontology, I explore three accounts (summative accounts, joint commitment and functio...

In many evolutionary/functionalist theories, emotions organize the activity of the autonomic nervous system (ANS) and other physiological systems. Two kinds of patterned activity are discussed: (a) coherence (i.e., emotions organize and coordinate activity within the ANS, and between the ANS and other response systems such as facial expression and subjective experience), and (b) specificity (i....

The article generalizes the results of research directed onto singling out common errors in speech aphasic patients. Aphasia is characterized by partial or complete loss and caused damage language areas (Broca’s Wernicke’s areas). A lesion middle part patient’s left frontal lobe Broca’s aphasia to posterior superior temporal gyrus referred as aphasia. major causes are strokes, cortical vein thr...