{"type":"ScholarlyArticle","title":"SOME SPECULATIONS ON LANGUAG E","authors":[],"abstract":"Artificial intelligence as well aa neur ophysiological studies of recent decades sugg est a unitary view of language, in which natu ral language constitutes only part of the tot al language of the organism; the latter is a singl e but complex structure containing also the s ymbol-systems and their transformations respon sible for mental processes. Following Sloman , the dogma that communication is the main function of language is opposed , and impli cations of the unitary thesis i n respect of a number of linguistic and psycho logical questi ons are briefly discussed.","doi":null,"url":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1979/235","pdf":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1979/0235.pdf","markdown":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1979/235.md","bibtex":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1979/bibtex/235","volume":{"slug":"1979","title":"Proceedings of the Sixth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence","short_title":"IJCAI 1979","url":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1979/","year":1979,"location":"Tokyo, Japan","dates":"August 20-23, 1979","editors":"Bruce G. Buchanan","isbn":"","publisher":"International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence","doi_prefix":""},"section":null,"track":"","number":235,"pages":{"first":null,"last":null},"keywords":[],"videos":[],"references":[],"license_note":"Copyright International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence."}