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- The Language of Thought Hypothesis - Entry in the Stanford Encyclopaedia by Murat Aydede, surveying the arguments for and against the proposition that thoughts are expressed in a mental language.
- The Language of Thought Hypothesis - By Murat Aydede, surveying the arguments for and against the proposition that thoughts are expressed in a mental language.
- Language, Thought and the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis - A discussion hosted by UsingEnglish.com about the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, and whether language shapes thought or thought shapes language.
- Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics - Fundamental research, topic is psycholinguistics, i.e. the study of mental processes involved in language production, language comprehension and language acquisition, as well as the relation between language, thought and culture ("cognitive anthropology").
- Hacker on a Private Language Argument - A critique by Philip H. Thonemann of an account by Hacker of the use Wittgenstein makes of ostension in his private language argument.
- Danovėn / Arovėn Language Pages - Danovėn the language of logic, is the strictly unambiguous form of Arovėn, the language of thought, designed by J.J. Shinavier.
- Wittgenstein sans The Private Language Argument - Stephen Thornton argues that the private language argument is less important to Wittgenstein's broad conclusions in the Investigations than is commonly taken to be the case.
- Private Language - Entry from the Stanford Encyclopaedeia of Philosophy.
- Natural Language and Thought - Debate in Behaviour and Philosophy, consisting of two essays: `Doing Without Mentalese' by Larry Hauser, and `Thinking Without English' by Barbara Abbott.
- Fodor and Pylshyn Refuted - Undergraduate thesis by Ken Marable, arguing for connectionism against Fodor's Language of Thought.
Wikipedia Articles
- Language of thought - Fodor's language of thought (LOT) hypothesis states that cognition is a process of computation over compositional mental representations. This means that thoughts are represented in a "language" (sometimes known as mentalese) which allows complex thoughts to be built up by combining simpler thoughts in various ways.
- Language in Thought and Action - Language in Thought and Action is a book on semantics by Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa in consultation with Leo Hamalian and Geoffrey Wagner. It was originally published in 1939; its Library of Congress catalog number is 64-10333.
- Language and thought - A variety of different authors, theories and fields purport influences between language and thought.
- Old Kent Sign Language - Old Kent Sign Language (OKSL), also known as Old Kentish Sign Language, is an extinct deaf sign language thought to have existed in the United Kingdom, but now superseded by British Sign Language. Kent is the county in the south east corner of England closest to France.
- Language death - In linguistics, language death (also language extinction, linguistic extinction) can be thought of as a process that affects speech communities where the level of linguistic competence that speakers possess of a given language idiom is decreased.