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This study moreover reports an early interaction between prosody and syntax.

  
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For a historical review see Lele and Singh (1987). (Editors' note)

  
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Appel (1987). (Editors' note)

  
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Vlastos (1975). (Editors' note)

  
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Fodor (1983). (Editors' note)

  
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Kripke (1979). (Editors' note)

  
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The ship of Theseus, according to the ancient Greek legend, had to be rebuilt while continuing to sail. Otto Neurath, a prominent member and co-founder of the Vienna Circle, used it as a metaphor of science, since there too one has to proceed forward while rebuilding the theories. In fact, in the epistemological literature this is often referred to also as Neurath's Ship. For interesting discussions, see Baggaley (1999); and for Neurath's Ship, see Blais (1997) and Zemplén (2006). (Editors' note)

  
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See
Chapter 10
, footnote 2.

  
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Rawls (1971). (Editors' note)

  
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See section 15.2.1.

  
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Uriagereka (1998). (Editors' note)

  
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Veblen (1899). (Editors' note)

  
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Rebecca West, the English critic, is credited with the irritated response to the “mind as a mirror of nature” that “one of the damn thing(s) is enough.” The quote that “one of the damn things is enough” also appears on page 3 of Nelson Goodman's essay “Languages of Art,” but as a part of the phrase: “Art is not a copy of the real world. One of the damn things is enough.” Goodman says in a footnote that the phrase appears in an “essay on Virginia Woolf” but that he has “been unable to locate the source.” For a discussion, see http://mindworkshop.blogspot.com/
2005/11/making-it-explicit-chapter-one-part-vi.html. (Editors' note)

  
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For a first discussion of, and counters to, Quine's (and Goodman's) theories of grammar, see Syntactic Structures (Chomsky 1957, reprinted in 2002), then Chomsky (1968). See also Lasnik et al. (2000). A partial reconciliation with some of Chomsky's theses was made by Quine in Quine (1969). (Editors' note)

  
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Church's Thesis (also referred to as Church–Turing's Thesis), in essence, states that a function is effectively computable (Turing-machine computable) if, and only if, it can be exhaustively and explicitly characterized. The class of these functions is identical with the class of partial recursive functions (as defined by S. C. Kleene in 1936). There is no formal proof of this thesis (that's why it is referred to as a thesis), but no counterexample has yet been found. It is now almost universally accepted by mathematicians and logicians. The classic references are: Church (1936), Turing (1936), Kleene (1936). A standard textbook is Hartley Rogers (1987). For a philosophical analysis see Mendelson (1990). (Editors' note)

  
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Post (1943). (Editors' note)

  
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Chomsky and Schu¨tzenberger (1963). See also Chomsky (1959a, b). (Editors' note)

  
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Comments about these misunderstandings and many more, instantiated in Margaret A. Boden's (2006) two-volumes history of cognitive science, are to be found in Chomsky (2007). (Editors' note)

  
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Miller (1956). (Editors' note)

  
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Miller and Chomsky (1963); also Chomsky and Miller (1953). (Editors' note)

  
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Elman (1991). (Editors' note)

  
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Chomsky (1955). Chomsky (1975). (Editors' note)

  
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Exceptional Case Marking. (Editors' note)

  
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Postal (1974); see also Postal (1964), Chomsky (1995b). (Editors' note)

  
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Ullmann (1958). (Editors' note)

  
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J. A. Fodor (1998). (Editors' note)

  
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Fodor (1970). (Editors' note)

  
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Quine 1985.

  
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See also Chomsky (1995b). (Editors' note)

  
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Putnam (1973). (Editors' note)

  
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Wittgenstein (1953). (Editors' note)

  
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Jakobson (1936). (Editors' note)

  
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Vergnaud (1977). (Editors' note)

  
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The original sentence was “I almost had a book stolen” in Chomksy's Aspects (1965: 22). The sentence modified by Jim Higginbotham has, of course, the easy interpretation that it was almost the case that my wallet was stolen. The second, less easy, is that I almost commissioned someone else to steal my wallet. The third meaning, the third ambiguity, is harder to see: it can be paraphrased as I nearly managed to steal my own wallet (but something went wrong and I failed to do that). (Editors' note)

  
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Chomsky (1973). (Editors' note)

  
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Goodman (1983).