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From Molecule to Metaphor : A Neural Theory of Language

Reviews

 
The 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 
Computational Linguistics (June 2007,) Vol. 33, No. 2: 259-261.
 
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 J. Idsardi

 Department of Linguistics, Program in Neuroscience and Cognitive Science, University of Maryland, 1401 Marie Mount Hall, College Park, MD 20742, USA

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. 
 
 
In addition, there are reviews at the following sites. 
 
  • Amazon has Reader Reviews.
  • Brad DeLong  published a long review on his blog and there were also several comments, a few of which are relevant.
  • A shorter review on the Pacific Views blog
  • The MIT Press site has some endorsements and links to other material.