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A History of Big Recessions in the Long Twentieth Century
This book examines the array of financial crises, slumps, depressions and recessions that happened around the globe during the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. It covers events including World War I, hyperinflation and market crashes in the 1920s, the Great Depression of the 1930s, stagflation of the 1970s, the Latin American debt crises of the 1980s, the post-socialist transitions i…
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The pragmatic turn toward action-oriented views in cognitive science
Cognitive science is experiencing a pragmatic turn away from the traditional representation-centered framework toward a view that focuses on understanding cognition as 'enactive'. This enactive view holds that cognition does not produce models of the world but rather subserves action as it is grounded in sensorimotor skills. In this volume, experts from cognitive science, neuroscience, psycholo…
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- 9780262333290
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- 1 online resource (xi, 418 pages) :illustrations.
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Why only us language and evolution
"We are born crying, but those cries signal the first stirring of language. Within a year or so, infants master the sound system of their language; a few years after that, they are engaging in conversations. This remarkable, species-specific ability to acquire any human language--'the language faculty'--raises important biological questions about language, including how it has evolved. This boo…
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- 9780262333351
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- 1 online resource (215 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates) :illustrations (some color)
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Agreement Beyond Phi
An argument that agreement and agreementless languages are unified under an expanded view of grammatical features including both phi-features and certain discourse configurational features.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262338639
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- 1 online resource.
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Game Theory and the Humanities: Bridging Two Worlds
The author shows how game theory can illuminate the rational choices made by characters in texts ranging from the Bible to Joseph Heller's 'Catch-22' and can explicate strategic questions in law, history, and philosophy.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262295932
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- 1 online resource (xi, 319 pages) :illustrations
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Principle B, VP ellipsis, and interpretation in child grammar
This is the first experimental study of Principle B with verb phrase ellipsis and properties of the interpretation of empty pronouns in ellipsis. Among the universal principles are those known as the principles of the binding theory. These principles constrain the range of interpretations that can be assigned to sentences containing reflexives and reciprocals, pronouns, and referring express…
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- 9780262284974
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Mental time travel episodic memory and our knowledge of the personal past
"In this book, Kourken Michaelian builds on research in the psychology of memory to develop an innovative philosophical account of the nature of remembering and memory knowledge.\sCurrent philosophical approaches to memory rest on assumptions that are incompatible with the rich body of theory and data coming from psychology.\sMichaelian argues that abandoning those assumptions will result in a …
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- 9780262334570
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- 1 online resource (xx, 291 pages) :illustrations.
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Enrico Fermi the Obedient Genius
This biography explores the life and career of the Italian physicist Enrico Fermi, which is also the story of thirty years that transformed physics and forever changed our understanding of matter and the universe: nuclear physics and elementary particle physics were born, nuclear fission was discovered, the Manhattan Project was developed, the atomic bombs were dropped, and the era of “big sc…
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- 978-1-4939-3533-8
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- 51 b/w illustrations, 3 illustrations in colour
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Cognitive pluralism
An argument that we understand the world through many special-purpose mental models of different content domains, and an exploration of the philosophical implications. Philosophers have traditionally assumed that the basic units of knowledge and understanding are concepts, beliefs, and argumentative inferences. In Cognitive Pluralism, Steven Horst proposes that another sort of unit--a mental mo…
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- 0262333627
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- 1 online resource (xii, 360 pages) :illustrations, maps
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WH-Movement: Moving On
Linguists reconsider issues raised in Chomsky's 1977 article "On Wh-movement" from the perspective of current Minimalist theory.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 1 online resource (xi, 353 pages).
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