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From: mccarthy@cca.CCA.COM (Dennis McCarthy)
Newsgroups: comp.cog-eng,sci.lang
Subject: Request for References on Task-Specifity
Message-ID: <15743@cca.CCA.COM>
Date: Tue, 5-May-87 15:36:25 EDT
Article-I.D.: cca.15743
Posted: Tue May  5 15:36:25 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 9-May-87 09:50:39 EDT
Organization: Computer Corp. of America, Cambridge, MA
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Keywords: Language Acquisition, Language Universals
Xref: mnetor comp.cog-eng:97 sci.lang:596

There seems to be a fundamental disagreement between linguists
and cognitive scientist over task-specific cognitive mechanisms
for language, particularly for language acquisition.  Linguists
generally assume such mechanisms.  However, recent proposals for
the architecture of cognition (e.g. ACT*, Soar) do not include
special mechanisms for language.  Their authors claim that all
cognitive functions, including language, are achieved by the
general mechanisms of their architectures.

Does anyone know of a book or article that contains an analysis
of the arguments for both points of view?