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Some animals are born early, and acquire a “second nature” catterpillars become butterflies infants become speakers of human languages, whose meaningful expressions can be used in thought and communication

Metamorphosis affects Lifestyle

infants become speakers of human languages, whose meaningful expressions can be used in thought and communication

What are human languages? What are the words and phrases of a human language? What are meanings of these linguistic expressions? How are they are related to our distinctively human concepts? How are they are related to the things we think and talk about? infants become speakers of human languages, whose meaningful expressions can be used in thought and communication

Assumption: human children acquire languages of a special sort. (a) unbounded: each Human Language pairs endlessly many meanings of some kind with pronunciations of some kind (b) yet limited: Human Languages pair meanings with pronunciations in ways that respect substantive constraints possible languages Human Languages Human Languages Finite Languages Finite Languages Gruesome Languages Gruesome Languages More Permissive Languages More Permissive Languages

unbounded yet limited… Bingley is ready to please (a) Bingley is ready to please relevant parties (b) Bingley is ready to be pleased by relevant parties Bingley is eager to please (a) Bingley is eager to please relevant parties #(b) Bingley is eager to be pleased by relevant parties Bingley is easy to please #(a) Bingley can easily please relevant parties (b) Bingley can easily be pleased by relevant parties

unbounded yet limited… hiker lost kept walking circles (a) The hiker who was lost kept walking in circles? (b) The hiker who lost was kept walking in circles? Was the hiker who lost kept walking in circles? #(a) The hiker who was lost kept walking in circles? (b) The hiker who lost was kept walking in circles? The senator called the donor from Texas. (a) The senator called the donor, and the donor was from Texas. (b) The senator called the donor, and the call was from Texas. #(c) The senator called the donor, and the senator was from Texas.

Assumption: human children acquire languages of a special sort. unbounded yet limited procedures: children come to implement algorithms that pair meanings with pronunciations in certain ways (1) Human linguistic meanings are (such that they can be) paired with pronunciations in these biologically implementable ways. (2) The details, including constraints on lexical and phrasal meanings, make some conceptions of meaning less plausible than others. possible languages Human Languages Human Languages Finite Languages Finite Languages Gruesome Languages Gruesome Languages More Permissive Languages More Permissive Languages Infinite Sets of Symbols

We can use ‘language’ and ‘meaning’ to talk about many things… LANGUAGES MEANINGS concepts contents senses referents/extensions patterns of use intentions sets of possible worlds functions from contexts to extensions instructions for how to build concepts But for any Xs, it is an empirical question whether Human Languages pair Xs with pronunciations. complexes of “dispositions to verbal behavior” strings of a “corpus” things ascribed by “radical interpreters” sets of “ordered pairs of strings and meanings” generative procedures

Some “Recent” Work: Elaborating and Defending… a Chomsky-style conception of Human Languages a plausible companion conception of meaning Poverty of Stimulus papers (often replying to critics): with Crain about kids and constrained homophony; with Berwick/ChomskyBerwick/Chomsky, updating some classic arguments proposals about “eventish” constructions: Small Verbs, Complex EventsSmall Verbs, Complex Events; Davidson reviews; On Explaining ThatOn Explaining That; and a 2005 book, Events and Semantic Architecture papers, like Framing Event VariablesVariables, that highlight skepticism about semantic externalism and the need for substantive (non- disquotational) theories of meaning papers and apapers book in the works that provide the positive proposal: meanings are instructions for how to build (systematically composable) concepts of a special sort collborative work on ‘most’ as a window into Language/Cognition interfaces composition is simple: phrasal meanings are conjunctive and monadic phrasal meanings are conjunctive and monadic acquiring words is a big deal: lexicalizing concepts involves "reformatting”"reformatting” (cp. Frege)