I just wanted to post a link to a very cool dissertation concerning specifics about the relationship between gesture and intonation. I feel like at some point we've been discussing these two things, and this seems pretty well done (from the small part I've read so far):
http://www9.georgetown.edu/faculty/loehrd/pubs_files/Loehr04.pdf
Cool Stuff!
Tuesday, March 20, 2007
Monday, March 19, 2007
More than just a cool stencil
Our blog shares its name with a remarkable branch of cognitive science!
"Distributed Cognition," to quote the eponymous Wikipedia article, proposes that "human knowledge and cognition are not confined to the individual." In contrast to the widespread focus on the performance of the individual mind, DC understands cognition as a social practice.
And here's the real quietus -- knowledge is not even confined to the collective cognition of human participants. Tools, like this blog, can be repositories of cognition with which we all interact.
I don't know about you, but I am wiping the froth from my mouth already.
One of the fertile minds that hath sired this attractive baby (if you'll allow me some intellectual favoritism, which is quite un-DCish) is that of none other than UCSD's own Edwin Hutchins. A mighty fortress is our alma mater.
To where our distributed cognition takes us, friends.
Grant
"Distributed Cognition," to quote the eponymous Wikipedia article, proposes that "human knowledge and cognition are not confined to the individual." In contrast to the widespread focus on the performance of the individual mind, DC understands cognition as a social practice.
And here's the real quietus -- knowledge is not even confined to the collective cognition of human participants. Tools, like this blog, can be repositories of cognition with which we all interact.
I don't know about you, but I am wiping the froth from my mouth already.
One of the fertile minds that hath sired this attractive baby (if you'll allow me some intellectual favoritism, which is quite un-DCish) is that of none other than UCSD's own Edwin Hutchins. A mighty fortress is our alma mater.
To where our distributed cognition takes us, friends.
Grant
Thursday, March 15, 2007
inceptum
Hey guys... just thought I'd take a break from reviewing the McCarthy article and claim this URL. If Grant wants to host the blog, that it totally cool... but I thought in case that doesn't work this would be easy.
The goal of this blog (wherever it is/whatever it is called):
to have a place where we can comment on linguistics... problems with what we've been studying, things that would be cool to study, things we're unclear about, thing that seem wrong, experiments that need (to be) run
The idea is that 5 minds are better than one. Also, Gabe's hopes of establishing a "school of thought" could be realized, and maybe we could contribute to bringing a little more sense to this field full of very brilliant and very stupid ideas :-)
Also, if we do it on blogspot, all you need to edit the blog is a google account.
The goal of this blog (wherever it is/whatever it is called):
to have a place where we can comment on linguistics... problems with what we've been studying, things that would be cool to study, things we're unclear about, thing that seem wrong, experiments that need (to be) run
The idea is that 5 minds are better than one. Also, Gabe's hopes of establishing a "school of thought" could be realized, and maybe we could contribute to bringing a little more sense to this field full of very brilliant and very stupid ideas :-)
Also, if we do it on blogspot, all you need to edit the blog is a google account.
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