11.1353, Calls: PSYCOLOQUY - Call for Multiple Book Reviewers

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Date:  Sun, 18 Jun 2000 21:53:39 +0100 (BST)
From:  Stevan Harnad <harnad at coglit.ecs.soton.ac.uk>
Subject:  "TOWARDS ELECTRONIC JOURNALS": PSYC Call for Book Reviewers

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Date:  Sun, 18 Jun 2000 15:59:04 +0100 (BST)
From:  Stevan Harnad <harnad at coglit.ecs.soton.ac.uk>
Subject:  Language-Origins: PSYC Call for Multiple Book Reviewers

-------------------------------- Message 1 -------------------------------

Date:  Sun, 18 Jun 2000 21:53:39 +0100 (BST)
From:  Stevan Harnad <harnad at coglit.ecs.soton.ac.uk>
Subject:  "TOWARDS ELECTRONIC JOURNALS": PSYC Call for Book Reviewers

    PSYCOLOQUY CALL FOR BOOK REVIEWERS:

    Tenopir/King: Towards Electronic Journals

    Below is the Abstract of "Towards Electronic Journals" by Carol
    Tenopir and Donald W. King. This book has been selected for
    multiple review in Psycoloquy, a refereed journal of Open Peer
    Commentary in the biobehavioral and cognitive sciences. If you wish
    to submit a formal book review please write to
        psyc at pucc.princeton.edu
    indicating what expertise you would bring to bear on reviewing the
    book if you were selected to review it.

    (If you have never reviewed for PSYCOLOQUY or Behavioral & Brain
    Sciences before, it would be helpful if you could also append a
    copy of your CV to your inquiry.) If you are selected as one of the
    reviewers and do not have a copy of the book, you will be sent a
    copy of the book directly by the publisher (please let us know if
    you have a copy already). Reviews may also be submitted without
    invitation, but all reviews will be refereed. The author will reply
    to all accepted reviews.

    FULL PSYCOLOQUY BOOK REVIEW INSTRUCTIONS AT:

    http://www.princeton.edu/~harnad/psyc.html
    http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/psycoloquy/

    FULL ARTICLE-LENGTH PRECIS OF THE BOOK IS RETRIEVABLE FROM:

    http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/psyc-bin/newpsy?11.084

    Note: Psycoloquy reviews are of the BOOK not the Precis. Review
    Length should be about 200 lines [c. 1800 words], with a short
    abstract (about 50 words), an indexable title, and reviewer's full
    name and institutional address, email and Home Page URL. All
    references that are electronically accessible should also have
    URLs.

    AUTHORS' RATIONALE FOR SOLICITING MULTIPLE REVIEW: We would like
    scientists as authors, readers, editors, referees and observers of
    the coming electronic age to review the book through their personal
    experiences and knowledge, which they think confirm, reinforce, or
    refute our observations. We would also appreciate comments on our
    interpretation of results. We look at the book as a stepping-stone
    in our further study of electronic journals. Input from scientists
    is particularly desired for our future study.

psycoloquy.00.11.084.electronic-journals.1.tenopir         Sun Jun 18 2000
ISSN 1055-0143                    (53 paragraphs, 7 references, 954 lines)
PSYCOLOQUY  is sponsored by  the American Psychological Association  (APA)
                Copyright 2000 Carol Tenopir & Donald W. King

                TOWARDS ELECTRONIC JOURNALS:
        REALITIES FOR SCIENTISTS, LIBRARIANS, AND PUBLISHERS
    [Special Libraries Association 2000, xxii + 488pp ISBN 0-87111-507-7]
                Precis of Tenopir on Electronic-Journals

                Carol Tenopir
                School of Information Sciences
                University of Tennessee
                804 Volunteer Boulevard
                Knoxville, TN 37919
                tenopir at utk.edu
                http://web.utk.edu/~tenopir/tenopir.html

                Donald W. King
                4915 Gullane Drive
                Ann Arbor, MI 48103
                dwking at umich.edu

    ABSTRACT: This precis of "Towards Electronic Journals" (Tenopir &
    King 2000) focuses mostly on scientists' perspective as authors and
    readers, how changes over the years by publishers and librarians
    have affected scientists, and what they should expect from
    electronic journal and digital journal article databases. We
    describe some myths concerning scholarly journals and attempt to
    assess the future in a realistic manner. Most of our primary data
    involves U.S. scientists, libraries and publishers, but much of the
    secondary data is from a European perspective, which shows few
    differences.

    KEYWORDS: copyright, citation impact, digital library, electronic
    archives, electronic publishing, electronic journals, peer review,
    publication costs, research funding

    OVERVIEW OF CONTENTS: "Towards Electronic Journals" (Tenopir & King
    2000) is addressed to four audiences: scientists as authors and
    readers; journal publishers; librarians and other intermediaries;
    and organizational funders of scientists and libraries. An attempt
    was made: (1) to describe the communication practices of
    scientists, librarians, and publishers; (2) to establish their
    goals, motives, and incentives for the way in which they do things;
    and (3) to determine the cost and other economic aspects of their
    involvement.  In particular, we felt it important for each journal
    system participant to gain a better understanding and appreciation
    of the contributions made by all participants and to enable them to
    make more informed decisions about electronic journals in the
    future.
        To achieve these objectives we partitioned the book into five
    parts, in addition to an introduction. A background part provides a
    summary of the quantitative results, a brief history of scientific
    scholarly journals including early electronic publishing, a
    framework for describing scholarly journals as a system embedded in
    larger communication and science systems, and a description of our
    data collection methods. Data include results from 13,591
    readership survey responses from scientists (1977 to 1998); more
    than 100 cost studies of library services, publishing, and
    scientists' authorship and information seeking; a study of the
    characteristics of a sample of 715 scholarly journals tracked from
    1960 to 1995; and review of more than 800 relevant publications.
        The next three parts address the principal participants: (1)
    scientists, including their general communication activities and
    journal authorship, readership and information-seeking patterns; (2)
    libraries, including general library use and journal-related
    services use and economics; and (3) publishers, including journal
    publishing costs, pricing, and financial considerations. The last
    part covers electronic publishing details and aspects appropriate
    to each of the journal system participants.

Tenopir, Carol, and Donald W. King (2000) Towards Electronic Journals:
Realities for Scientists, Librarians, and Publishers. Washington,
D.C.: Special Libraries Association.
http://www.sla.org

    FULL PRECIS IS RETRIEVABLE FROM:

    http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/psyc-bin/newpsy?11.084

    FULL PSYCOLOQUY BOOK REVIEW INSTRUCTIONS AT:

    http://www.princeton.edu/~harnad/psyc.html
    http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/psycoloquy/


-------------------------------- Message 2 -------------------------------

Date:  Sun, 18 Jun 2000 15:59:04 +0100 (BST)
From:  Stevan Harnad <harnad at coglit.ecs.soton.ac.uk>
Subject:  Language-Origins: PSYC Call for Multiple Book Reviewers

            PSYCOLOQUY CALL FOR BOOK REVIEWERS of:

            "The Origins of Complex Language"
            by Andrew Carstairs-McCarthy (OUP 1999)

    Below is the abstract of the Precis of "The Origins of Complex
    Language" by Andrew Carstairs-McCarthy (740 lines). This book has
    been selected for multiple review in Psycoloquy. If you wish to
    submit a formal book review please write to psyc at pucc.princeton.edu
    indicating what expertise you would bring to bear on reviewing the
    book if you were selected to review it.

    Full Precis: http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/psyc-bin/newpsy?11.082

    (If you have never reviewed for PSYCOLOQUY or Behavioral & Brain
    Sciences before, it would be helpful if you could also append a
    copy of your CV to your inquiry.) If you are selected as one of the
    reviewers and do not have a copy of the book, you will be sent a
    copy of the book directly by the publisher (please let us know if
    you have a copy already). Reviews may also be submitted without
    invitation, but all reviews will be refereed. The author will reply
    to all accepted reviews.

    FULL PSYCOLOQUY BOOK REVIEW INSTRUCTIONS AT:

    http://www.princeton.edu/~harnad/psyc.html
    http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/psycoloquy/

    Psycoloquy reviews are of the book, not the Precis. Length should
    be about 200 lines [c. 1800 words], with a short abstract (about 50
    words), an indexable title, and reviewer's full name and
    institutional address, email and Home Page URL. All references that
    are electronically accessible should also have URLs.

    AUTHOR'S RATIONALE FOR SOLICITING MULTIPLE BOOK REVIEW

    Most recent investigators assume that the brain has always been the
    most important part of human anatomy for the evolution of language,
    and do not seriously examine other conceivable directions in which
    grammatical evolution might have proceeded. In "The Origins of
    Complex Language," it is suggested that certain central features of
    language-as-it-is, notably the distinction between sentences and
    noun phrases, are by no means inevitable outcomes of linguistic or
    cognitive evolution, so that where they come from constitutes a
    genuine puzzle. The solution that is proposed is that
    grammar-as-it-is was, in fundamental respects, exapted from, or
    tinkered out of, the neural mechanisms that arose for the control
    of syllabically organized vocalization, made possible by (among
    other things) the descent of the larynx. This proposal turns upside
    down mainstream views about the relationship between language
    development and vocal tract development, and also challenges the
    logical and epistemological basis of notions closely tied to the
    distinction between sentences and noun phrases, such as
    'reference', 'predication' and 'assertion'. It should therefore be
    of interest to anthropologists, psychologists, cognitive
    scientists, linguists and philosophers of language.

psycoloquy.00.11.082.language-origins.1.carstairs-mccarthy Wed May 24 2000
ISSN 1055-0143                    (44 paragraphs, 27 references, 85 lines)
PSYCOLOQUY  is sponsored by  the American Psychological Association  (APA)
                Copyright 2000 Andrew Carstairs-McCarthy

                THE ORIGINS OF COMPLEX LANGUAGE
  [Oxford University Press 1999, ISBN 0-19-823822-3, 0-19-823821-5]
                Precis of Carstairs-McCarthy on Complex Language

                Andrew Carstairs-McCarthy
                University of Canterbury
                Department of Linguistics
                Private Bag 4800
                Christchurch
                New Zealand
                a.c-mcc at ling.canterbury.ac.nz

    ABSTRACT: Some puzzling characteristics of grammar, such as the
    sentence/NP distinction and the organization of inflection classes,
    may provide clues about its prehistory. When bipedalism led to
    changes in the vocal tract that favoured  syllabically organized
    vocalization, this made possible an increase in vocabulary which in
    turn rendered advantageous a reliable syntax, whose source was the
    neural mechanism for controlling syllable structure. Several
    features of syntax make sense as byproducts of characteristics of
    the syllable (for example, grammatical 'subjects' may be byproducts
    of onset margins). This scenario is consistent with evidence from
    biological anthropology, ape language studies, and brain
    neurophysiology.

    KEYWORDS: ape, aphasia, brain development, evolution of language,
    grammar, language, larynx, noun phrase, predication, principle of
    contrast, reference, sentence, sign language, speech, syllable,
    truth

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