Liz Bates' Quote

[Brian MacWhinney]

Dear Helen et al.,
     By the time Liz and I wrote the introductory chapter for our  
1989 book, she had been using this particular phrasing for years in  
her inimitably articulate way.
      The idea is fundamental to Darwin, but the source that she and  
I thought was the clearest on this was Werner and Kaplan's Symbol  
Formation from 1960.
      By the way, the final shape of phrasing she adopted can itself  
be viewed metalinguistically as a new machine out of many old parts :)

--Brian MacWhinney



On Dec 16, 2005, at 12:07 PM, htagerf at bu.edu wrote:

> Here are the responses I received - thanks to everyone!
>
>
> Maria Rosa Brea-Spahn, M.S., CCC-SLP:
> Bates, E.  (2004). Explaining and interpreting deficits in language  
> development across clinical groups: Where do we go from here? Brain  
> and Language, 88, 248-253.
>
> "Language may be a new machine that nature has constructed out of  
> old parts" p. 250
>
> Elena Lieven:
>
> In Bates & MacWhinney 1989, The Crosslinguistic Study of Language
>
> Acquisition, p.10 they say:
>
> "Language could be viewed as a new machine constructed entirely out of
>
> old parts"
>
>  Erika Hoff:
> language is "a new machine built out of old parts" in "Bates, Thal,  
> & Marchman (1991). Smbols and syntax: A darwinian approach ot  
> language development. In N. A. Krasnegor, D. M. Rumbaugh, R. L.  
> Schiefelbusch, & M. Studdert-Kennedy (Eds.), Biological and  
> behavioral determints of language development (pp. 29-66).  
> Nillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum. The quote is on p. 5.
> Ping Li:
>
> "the human capacity for language could be both innate and species- 
> specific, and yet involve no mechanisms that evolved specifically  
> and uniquely for language itself. Language could be viewed as a new  
> machine constructed entirely out of old parts." (Bates &  
> MacWhinney, 1989; see also Bates et al., 1979).
>
> Bates, E., Benigni, L., Bretherton, I., Camaioni, L., & Volterra,  
> V. (1979). The emergence of symbols: Cognition and communication in  
> infancy. New York: Academic Press.
>
> Bates, E.& MacWhinney, B. (1989). Functionalism and the competition  
> model, In B. MacWhinney & E. Bates (Eds), The cross-linguistic  
> study of sentence processing (pp. 3-73).Cambridge University Press,  
> Cambridge.
>
>
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