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Linguistics Colloquia Abstracts - Abstracts of three talks Jackendoff delivered to the 1997 University of Delaware Linguistic Colloquia. The talks deal mostly with topics from Jackendoff's `The Architecture of the Language Faculty'.
Review of `Patterns in the Mind' and `The Language Instinct' - Review titled `Wired for Sound' by Daniel C. Dennett of the books by Ray Jackendoff and Stephen Pinker, which appeared in the London Review of Books (1994).
Annotation for Lerdahl, Fred, and Jackendoff, Ray - A brief exposition of their joint work applying insights from generative linguistics to the formal analysis of music, assuming the listener is experienced in the tonal idiom.
Lerdahl and Jackendoff Revisited - Essay by Heikki Valkonen with introduction to their General Theory of Tonal Music, general ingredients, the four hierarchical dimensions, and perceived problems with the theory.
Annotation for Lerdahl, Fred, and Jackendoff, Ray - A brief exposition of their joint work applying insights from generative linguistics to the formal analysis of music, assuming the listener is experienced in the tonal idiom.

Ray Jackendoff - Ray Jackendoff (born January 23, 1945) is an influential contemporary linguist who has always straddled the boundary between generative linguistics and cognitive linguistics, committed as he is both to the existence of an innate Universal Grammar (an important thesis of generative linguistics) and to giving an account of language ...
Conceptual Semantics - Conceptual Semantics is a framework for semantic analysis developed mainly by Ray Jackendoff. Its aim is to provide a characterization of the conceptual elements by which a person understands words and sentences, and thus to provide an explanatory semantic representation (title of a Jackendoff 1976 paper).
Simpler Syntax - Simpler Syntax is the title of a 2005 book by Ray Jackendoff and Peter Culicover. The authors argue that modern minimalist syntax is going in the wrong direction, adopting ever more complex structures and derivations, and making overly strong assumptions about linguistic universals.