Background
Lamb, Sydney MacDonald was born on May 4, 1929 in Denver, Colorado, United States. Son of Sydney Bishop and Jean Louisa (MacDonald) Lamb.
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Pathways of the Brain: The neurocognitive basis of language (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory)
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The brain is the organ of knowledge and organizer of our abilities, our means of recognizing a face in a crowd, of conversing about anything we experience or imagine, of forming thoughts and developing ideas, of instantly understanding words coming rapidly in conversation. How does it manage all this? Does it represent information in symbols or in the connectivity of a vast network?Pathways of the Brain builds a theory to answer such questions. Using a top-down modeling strategy, it charts relationships among words and other products of the brain’s linguistic system to reveal properties of that system. Going beyond earlier linguistics, it sets three plausibility requirements for a valid neurocognitive theory: operational, developmental, and neurological: It must show how the linguistic system can operate for speaking and understanding, how it can be learned by children, and how it is implemented in neural structures. Unlike theories that leave linguistics isolated from science, it builds a bridge to biology. Of interest to anthropologists, linguists, neurologists, neuroscientists, philosophers, psychologists, and any thoughtful person interested in language or the brain. The author is Agnes Cullen Arnold Professor Emeritus of Linguistics and Cognitive Sciences.
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Pathways of the Brain: The neurocognitive basis of language (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory)
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The brain is the organ of knowledge and organizer of our abilities, our means of recognizing a face in a crowd, of conversing about anything we experience or imagine, of forming thoughts and developing ideas, of instantly understanding words coming rapidly in conversation. How does it manage all this? Does it represent information in symbols or in the connectivity of a vast network?Pathways of the Brain builds a theory to answer such questions. Using a top-down modeling strategy, it charts relationships among words and other products of the brain’s linguistic system to reveal properties of that system. Going beyond earlier linguistics, it sets three plausibility requirements for a valid neurocognitive theory: operational, developmental, and neurological: It must show how the linguistic system can operate for speaking and understanding, how it can be learned by children, and how it is implemented in neural structures. Unlike theories that leave linguistics isolated from science, it builds a bridge to biology. Of interest to anthropologists, linguists, neurologists, neuroscientists, philosophers, psychologists, and any thoughtful person interested in language or the brain. The author is Agnes Cullen Arnold Professor Emeritus of Linguistics and Cognitive Sciences.
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Language and Reality: Selected Writings of Sydney Lamb (Open Linguistics)
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Language and Reality presents selected writings of Professor Sydney M. Lamb, including six new works and several which have been re-worked for publication here. Although he is a leading figure in linguistic science, many of the papers are far from well known, some of them having appeared in more obscure venues of publication, and for the most part unavailable to the wider linguistic community. The book is divided into four parts, the first of which includes papers offering insight into the man behind this pioneering approach to doing linguistics that might best be summed up as "linguistics to the beat of a different drummer." The papers in Part II explore the theoretical origins of Lamb's ideas about language that have often been described as ahead of their time. Part III includes more recent writings outlining work done in Neurocognitive Linguistics. Studies of the interconnectedness of language with other kinds of human experience and with history are presented in Part IV.
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Outline of Stratificational Grammar
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Book by Lamb, Sydney
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Pathways of the Brain: The neurocognitive basis of language (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory) by Lamb, Prof. Sydney M. (1999) Paperback
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Sydney MacDonald Lamb
Edit ProfileLinguistics and cognitive science educator
Sydney MacDonald Lamb, American linguistics educator. National Science Foundation grantee, 1959-1964, 66-70; American Council of Learned Society grantee, 1973-1974. Member Linguistic Society of America (executive committee 1966-1968), Linguistics Association of Canada and United States (president 1983-1984, chairman board directors 1995—2009), Houston Philosophical Society (president 1992-1993).
Education
Lamb earned his Doctor of Philosophy from the University of California, Berkeley in 1958 and taught there from 1956 to 1964.
Career
He has specialized in Neurocognitive Linguistics and a stratificational approach to language understanding. His dissertation was a grammar of the Uto-Aztecan language Mono, under the direction of Mary Haas and Murray B. Emeneau. In 1964, he began teaching at Yale University before joining the Semionics Associates in Berkeley, California in 1977.
Lamb did research in North American Indian languages specifically in those geographically centered on California.
His contributions have been wide-ranging, including those to historical linguistics, computational linguistics, and the theory of linguistic structure. His work led to innovative designs of content-addressable memory hardware for microcomputers.
Lamb is best known as the father of the relational network theory of language, which is also known as "stratificational theory". Near the turn of the millennium, he began developing the theory further and exploring its possible relationships to neurological structures and to thinking processes.
His early work developed the notion of "sememe" as a semantic object, analogous to the morpheme or phoneme in linguistics.
lieutenant was one of the inspirations of Roger Schank"s Conceptual dependency theory, a methodology for representing language meaning directly within the Artificial Intelligence movement of the 1960s/1970s. In 1999, his book — Pathways of the Brain: The Neurocognitive Basis of Language expressing some of these ideas — was published. See also: "Linguistic and Cognitive Networks" in Cognition: A Multiple View (ed Paul Garvin) New York: Spartan Books, 1970, pp.
195–222.
Reprinted in Makkai and Lockwood, Readings in Stratificational Linguistics (1973), pp.
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Pathways of the Brain: The neurocognitive basis of language (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory)
(The brain is the organ of knowledge and organizer of our ...)
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Pathways of the Brain: The neurocognitive basis of language (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory)
(The brain is the organ of knowledge and organizer of our ...)
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Language and Reality: Selected Writings of Sydney Lamb (Open Linguistics)
( Language and Reality presents selected writings of Prof...)
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Outline of Stratificational Grammar
(Book by Lamb, Sydney)
- Pathways of the Brain: The neurocognitive basis of language (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory) by Lamb, Prof. Sydney M. (1999) Paperback
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Pathways of the Brain: The neurocognitive basis of language (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory)
Membership
Member Linguistic Society American (Executive Committee 1966-1968), Linguistics Association of Canada and United States (president 1983-1984, Chairman, Board Of Directors since 1995), Houston Philosophical Society (treasurer 1985-1986, vice president 1991-1992, president 1992-1993).
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Married Sharon Reese Rowell, June 17, 1956 (divorced 1971). Children: Christina, Sarah, Nancy. Married Susan Ellen Jones, May 15, 1977.
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