Sydney Lamb
Sydney MacDonald Lamb (May 4, 1929- ), American linguist, professor at Rice University whose stratificational grammar is a significant alternative theory to Chomsky's transformational grammar. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
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~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Sydney Lamb has specialized in Neurocognitive Linguistics and a stratificational approach to language understanding. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ He did research in North American Indian languages specifically in those geographically centered around California. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ His contributions have been wide ranging including those to historical linguistics, computational linguistics, and the theory of linguistic structure. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ His work led to innovative designs of associative memory hardware for microcomputers. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ He is best known as the father of the relational network theory of language, which is also known as 'stratificational theory'. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Near the turn of the millennium, he has been developing the theory further and exploring its possible relationships to neurological structures and to thinking processes. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ In 1999, he published a book, Pathways of the Brain: The Neurocognitive Basis of Language expressing some these ideas. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
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