| Presentation | 2014/12/9 The Monaural Audition of Mother Tongue and Grammatical Processing : Piraha as an Exception KIMIAKI TOKUMARU, |
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| Abstract(in English) | Human listens to his mother tongue speech monaurally, only with the ear that first received speech sounds, while the other ear audition is attenuated. The author surmises that the sound localization and velocity determination functions in Brainstem Auditory Nuclei are converted to process grammars. Piraha language does not have "grammars", defined as "Logical phonetic switches expressed by mainly mono syllabic addition or modulation, indicating semantic modifications and connectivity with an adjacent concept, which can be employed unconsciously when acquired". Adult Piraha people use two word or three word sentences (or single verb sentences) only. It is plausible that, in order to be alert to invisible enemy attacks in Amazonian jungles, Piraha must keep binaural audition for sound source localization and sound velocity identification, and, therefore, they abandoned grammatical dualistic integration. This article tries to evaluate the above hypothesis, by integrating interdisciplinary studies such as Neurophysiology of audition, Neuro-histology, Network Theory of Immune System, Middle Stone Age Archaeology in South Africa, Phonology, Information Theory with Forward Error Correction in the thermodynamic concept of "entropy", General Logics covering not only language propositions but also electronic computers as well as protein production mechanism of cells, Field Linguistics, etc. The author hopes that independent multiple axioms constitute a system which shall shed light on the relationship between monaural audition and dualistic grammatical processing. |
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| Paper # | Vol.2014-NL-219 No.23 |
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| Conference Date | 2014/12/9(1days) |
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| Language | JPN |
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| Title (in English) | The Monaural Audition of Mother Tongue and Grammatical Processing : Piraha as an Exception |
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| 1st Author's Name | KIMIAKI TOKUMARU |
| 1st Author's Affiliation | () |
| Date | 2014/12/9 |
| Paper # | Vol.2014-NL-219 No.23 |
| Volume (vol) | vol.114 |
| Number (no) | 366 |
| Page | pp.pp.- |
| #Pages | 19 |
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