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Language in mind :advances in the study of language and thought
"A Bradford book."The idea that the language we speak influences the way we think has evoked perennial fascination and intense controversy. According to the strong version of this hypothesis, called the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis after the American linguists who propounded it, languages vary in their semantic partitioning of the world, and the structure of one's language influences how one understa…
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- 9780262273664
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- 1 online resource (viii, 528 pages) :illustrations
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Language form and language function
"A Bradford book."OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 0585078211
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- 1 online resource (xii, 428 pages) :illustrations.
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Language, consciousness, culture :essays on mental structure
"A Bradford Book."An integrative approach to human cognition that encompasses the domains of language, consciousness, action, social cognition, and theory of mind that will foster cross-disciplinary conversation among linguists, philosophers, psycholinguists, neuroscientists, cognitive anthropologists, and evolutionary psychologists.Ray Jackendoff's Language, Consciousness, Culture represents a…
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- 9780262276108
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- 1 online resource (xxiv, 403 pages) :illustrations.
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Ken Hale :a life in language
The essays in this collection celebrate Ken Hale's lifelong study of underdocumented languages and their implications for universal grammar. The authors report their latest research in syntax, morphology, semantics, phonology, and phonetics.ContributorsElena Anagnostopoulou, Noam Chomsky, Michel DeGraff, Kai von Fintel, Morris Halle, James Harris, Sabine Iatridou, Roumyana Izvorski, Michael Ken…
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- 9780262316125
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 480 pages) :illustrations.
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Lingua ex machina :reconciling Darwin and Chomsky with the human brain
"A Bradford book.""A proper lingua ex machina would be a language machine capable of nesting phrases and clauses inside one another, complete with evolutionary pedigree. Such circuitry for structured thought might also facilitate creative shaping up of quality (figuring out what to do with the leftovers in the refrigerator), contingency planning, procedural games, logic, and even music. And enh…
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- 9780262316132
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- 1 online resource (298 pages) :illustrations
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Lexical representation and process
Outgrowth of a conference held in Nijmegen, the Netherlands under the joint sponsorship of the Max-Planck-Institut f?ur Psycholinguistik and the Interfacultaire Werkgroep Taal en Spraakgedrag of the University of Nijmegen."A Bradford book."OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262279178
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- 1 online resource (x, 576 pages) :illustrations
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Sentence comprehension :the integration of rules and habits
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- 9780262316156
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- 1 online resource (x, 445 pages)
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Rhyme and reason :an introduction to minimalist syntax
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- 9780262285377
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- 1 online resource (xlii, 669 pages) :illustrations
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Speaking :from intention to articulation
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- 9780262278225
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 566 pages) :illustrations.
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A History of African Linguistics
Bringing together a team of leading scholars, this volume forms the first global history of African linguistics as an autonomous academic discipline, covering Africa, America, Asia, Australia, and Europe. Defining African linguistics, the volume describes its emergence from a 'colonial science' at the turn of the twentieth century in Europe, where it was first established mainly in academic ins…
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