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The brain in motion :from microcircuits to global brain function
"A complete and authoritative of the neural control of movement in animals ranging from lampreys to humans, including the roles of the cortex and basal ganglia, and will also cover motor disorders"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262375306
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- 1 online resource
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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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- 1 online resource.
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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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- 1 online resource.
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Born to parse :how children select their languages
"This book represents a new approach to language acquisition and to variable properties in language. By taking a novel approach in allowing for an account of the acquisition of variable properties of language and a biologically plausible treatment of language variation, Lightfoot argues against the use of binary parameters, for the centrality of parsing in language acquisition, and for the "ope…
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- 0262358867
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- 1 online resource.
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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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- 9780262361262
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- 1 online resource.
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Structure :concepts, consequences, interactions
"A sober, but polemical text on how the linguistics and language field has lost sight of the fact that syntactic structure remains crucial"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262371995
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- 1 online resource
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Why America is not a new Rome
An investigation of the America-Rome analogy that goes deeper than the facile comparisons made on talk shows and in glossy magazine articles.America's post-Cold War strategic dominance and its pre-recession affluence inspired pundits to make celebratory comparisons to ancient Rome at its most powerful. Now, with America no longer perceived as invulnerable, engaged in protracted fighting in Iraq…
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- 9780262283885
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- 1 online resource (xii, 226 pages) :illustrations, maps
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Locality in vowel harmony
This work offers phonologists new evidence that viewing vowel harmony through the lens of relativized minimality has the potential to unify different levels of linguistic representation and different domains of empirical inquiry in a unified framework.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262280570
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- 1 online resource (xii, 244 pages) :illustrations, maps.
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Adaptive dynamics :the theoretical analysis of behavior
In this book J.E.R. Staddon proposes an explanation of behavior that lies between cognitive psychology, which seeks to explain it in terms of mentalistic constructs, and cognitive neuroscience, which tries to explain it in terms of the brain. Staddon suggests a new way to understand the laws and causes of learning, based on the invention, comparison, testing, and modification or rejection of pa…
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- 9780262284189
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 423 pages) :illustrations
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Learnability and cognition :the acquisition of argument structure
"A Bradford book."OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262281614
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 411 pages) :illustrations.
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