ReviewsThe academic reviews have started to appear, and several publications in various disciplines have reviews scheduled. The currently available reviews include:
Review of From Molecule to Metaphor
Reviewer
Stefan Frank
Nijmegen Institute for Cognition and Information
Radboud University Nijmegen The text of this review is available here (in .pdf format).
Book reviews: Three books on language: pro-Noam, anti-Noam, net-Noam
Artificial Intelligence
Volume 170 , Issue 18 (December 2006) Pages: 1234-1236
ISSN:0004-3702
Author
William Idsardi is an MIT trained linguist who reviews the M2M book along with two others that fall squarely within his
comfort zone. I haven't found an accessible on-line version. ABSTRACT
This article a review of the following three books: [J.A. Feldman, From Molecule to Metaphor: A Neural Theory of Language, MIT Press, 2006, xx + 357 pages; P. Smolensky, G. Legendre, The Harmonic Mind: From Neural Computation to Optimality-Theoretic Grammar, MIT Press, 2006, 2 volumes: vol. 1: Cognitive Architecture, xxiv + 563 pages, vol. 2: Linguistic and Philosophical Implications, xxiv + 611 pages; C. Yang, The Infinite Gift: How Children Learn and Unlearn the Languages of the World, Scribner, 2006, 275 pages.]
This review is in Norwegian:
Reviewers: Laura Janda, U. North Carolina and Tore Nesset.
From Molecule to Metaphor. A Neural Theory of Language/, by Jerome A. Feldman. Cambridge, Massachusetts/London, England: The MIT Press, 2006. In /Norsk lingvistisk tidskrift./ 5pp.
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