Hywel Evans- Phd, University of London (SOAS)
- Professor at Otsuma Women's University
Hywel Evans
- Phd, University of London (SOAS)
- Professor at Otsuma Women's University
Research on AI and human cognition.
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Introduction
Focused on parallels between human and artificial language, human cognition and AI. Interested in the interface between Cognitive Linguistics and Sociocultural Theory -- the implications for theories of language acquisition and grammar.
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April 2015 - March 2022
April 2015 - March 2022
Education
August 1993 - July 1994
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Publications (16)
Research indicates that human beings share a sense of number and group membership with the higher primates, and working memory appears to be more powerful in chimpanzees than it is in humans. In light of these discoveries, Logical Form (LF), a formal arithmetical model of thought that has played a huge role in modern theoretical linguistics, requir...
Theoretical linguistics has been strongly influenced, in the popular imagination at least, by belief in an autonomous, abstract language faculty characterized in terms of purely syntactic information. This has been attractive to a large extent in that it offers hope of capturing linguistic phenomena in terms of scientific, linear formulae. The prom...
Fundamental problems with Linguistic Theory
The theoretical foundations supporting adherence to naturalistic language learning approaches appear to have entirely collapsed, just as non-naturalistic approaches to language teaching such as translation and translanguaging have become increasingly respectable in English language teaching. In line with this, language and language learning are inc...
Certain consequences are considered regarding a simpler, more cognitively plausible treatment of semantics in SignBased Construction Grammar, a cognitive, unification- based theory of language. It is proposed that a construction grammar may be able to improve its coverage of core linguistic phenomena in line with minimalist goals (Chomsky 1993). Su...
Theoretical issues related to mental development, cultural psychology, linguistics, and second language acquisition all point to the need to embrace the optimal use of student language in second language pedagogical tasks, rather than to merely dismiss such usage as a necessary evil. A principled response is urgently called for. It has been shown t...
Theoretical issues related to mental development, cultural psychology, linguistics, and second language acquisition all point to the need to embrace the optimal use of student language in second language pedagogical tasks, rather than to merely dismiss such usage as a necessary evil. A principled response is urgently called for. It has been shown t...
Research from a variety of frameworks suggests that appropriate use of first language can aid second language learning. However, researchers and professionals often assume that the use of student language is always bad and should therefore be reduced wherever possible. We conducted a simple experiment that suggests that the use of student language...
