Vienna patholinguistics discussion class November  9th 2020 Pléh

• Comparison of aphasia with other disorders of speech Sophie Samek shall start a presentation 
• Rule debates summary 
• key issues concept and role of rules in modern linguistics 
• what is the connectionist challenge 
• In what ways is Pinker and Clahsen a compromise? 
• Why is morphology so crucial in the debates? 
• How does a rules plus items system work in morphology? 

Procedural brain and language 

• The origin of knowing what and knowing how. Ryle and Polányi. Tacit knowledge.
• The procedures – knowledge duality in the visual brain.    
• Extensions to language. (Jeannerod and Marslen-Wilson) b
• The system prosed by Ullmann. Skill organization, language.  and sucortical centers   

Modularity and phrenology 

• Relate Fodor and later imaging visions of the brain
• Why and how is Fodor a not radical modularist?  
• Modularity versus modularization