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郑 奠、麦梅翘编，1972 作者简介 William SY． Wang，male，PhD． ， is Wei Lun Research Professor at the Department of Electronic Engineering，Chinese University of Hong Kong，and Professor of Linguistics Emeritus of the University of California at Berkeley． His research interests include the evolution and development of language at various time scales，how language interacts with cognition and the brain，and some associated engineering applications． Email： wsywang @ ee． cuhk． edu． hk 王士元，男，博士，香港中文大学电子工程系伟伦研究教授暨伯克利加州大学荣休语言学教授 。研究兴趣： 不同尺度的语言演化与发展 、 语言与认知和大脑的互动 、 相关的工程学应用。
电子邮件： wsywang@ ee． cuhk． edu． hk 作者通讯地址： 2011 年第 1 期 香港 沙田 新界 香港中文大学电子工程学系 21
《当代语言学》 第 13 卷 2011 年第 1 期 93 － 94 页，北京 Abstracts of Articles William S． Y． WANG，The evolution of evolutionary linguistics This essay traces the evolution of linguistic thought since ancient times，primarily from a Chinese perspective． It takes an interdisciplinary approach，incorporating contributions from genetics ，psychology，and especially from cognitive neuroscience． Particular consideration is given to an interpretation of the SapirWhorf Hypothesis，which concerns how different languages shape the brain differently． This in turn produces different cultural behaviors， specifically perceptual behaviors． Following the work on color terms by Paul Kay and his associates，which they dub ‘Lateralized Whorf ’ ， we report briefly some experiments on spoken and written Chinese． In collaboration with Diana Deutsch，we are exploring the manner in which speakers of tone languages are facilitated to have absolute pitch． Using EEG techniques，we discovered that Mainland and Hong Kong subjects respond differently to written symbols at the liminal level，due to the difference in their language experience． With recent advances in cognitive neuroscience as well as the newly developed brain imaging technology，linguists are at last in a good position to investigate language and behavior on a solid and cumulative empirical foundation， which is something Charles Darwin anticipated in 1871． Keywords： evolutionary linguistics，tone and absolute pitch，cultural influence on perception， Lateralized Whorf，Chinese linguistics GU Yueguo，Exploring the development of contemporary linguistics，Part 3 ： Language， medium，and technology． There are linguistic studies such as Brainese，conceptual semantics，articulatory phonetics，perceptual phonetics，mental lexicon，lexicography，acoustic phonetics，artificial intelligence，cormachine dialogue， etc． pus linguistics， computational linguistics， machine translation， humanThese studies are shown to converge on two pivotal interconnected themes，viz． （ 1 ） how language is represented and processed by the brain （ i． e． by natural intelligence） ，and （ 2 ） how natural intelligence is to be simulated by artificial intelligence． A range of theories are examined， including identity theory， reductionism， functionalism， eliminative materialism， cognitivism，connectionism，speech engineering，and artificial neural networks． Keywords： Brainese，representation，medium，artificial intelligence，artificial neural networks HE Chuansheng and JIANG Yan，Nominative XPde and semantics of de This paper discusses four questions related to Chinese modifiermodifiee structures mediated with de． It is argued that de is an affix attached to the modifiers， whose function is to type shift the modifier，which is ＜ et ＞ predicate， into e argument for purpose of type match． In 本刊网址： http： / / www． ddyyx． com 93