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The price of linguistic productivity :how children learn to break the rules o…
An investigation of how children balance rules and exceptions when they learn languages."All languages have exceptions alongside overarching rules and regularities. How does a young child tease them apart within just a few years of language acquisition? In this book, drawing an economic analogy, Charles Yang argues that just as the price of goods is determined by the balance between supply and …
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Words, thoughts, and theories
"A Bradford book."OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262274098
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- 1 online resource (xvi, 268 pages).
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Working minimalism
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Categories we live by :how we classify everyone and everything
An in-depth analysis of how humanity's compulsion to categorize affects every aspect of our lived experience. The minute we are born -- sometimes even before -- we are categorized. From there, classifications dog our every step: to school, work, the doctor's office, and even the grave. Despite the vast diversity and individuality in every life, we seek patterns, organization, and control. In Ca…
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- 026237711X
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- 1 online resource (192 pages).
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Consequences of language :from primary to enhanced intersubjectivity
"Two senior scholars explain what language does to human beings, especially how it affects our intersubjective competence"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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The secrets of words
Two distinguished linguists on language, the history of science, misplaced euphoria, surprising facts, and potentially permanent mysteries. In The Secrets of Words , influential linguist Noam Chomsky and his longtime colleague Andrea Moro have a wide-ranging conversation, touching on such topics as language and linguistics, the history of science, and the relation between language and the brain…
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Syntax in the treetops
"A syntactic analysis of and solution to the semantic problem: how can speakers convey the same meaning using different speech acts?"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262369091
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A selectional theory of adjunct control
"A new theory on adjunct control from a leading linguistics researcher"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 026236610X
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Linguistics for the age of AI
"An explantion of a knowledge-based system for creating computational agents with human-like language ability"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262363136
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Merge :binarity in (multidominant) syntax
"An argument for a novel binarity constraint on merge, preventing syntactic movement from relating more than two distinct positions at one time"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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