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Foundational Issues in Linguistic Theory : Essays in Honor of Jean-Roger Verg…
The essays in this volume attest to the importance of Verngaud's contribution to linguistics, particularly his influential work on foundational issues. The essays first discuss issues in syntax, documenting breakthroughs in the development of the principles and parameters framework.
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The primacy of grammar
The contemporary discipline of biolinguistics is beginning to have the feel of scientific inquiry. Biolinguistics—especially the work of Noam Chomsky—suggests that the design of language may be “perfect”: language is an optimal solution to conditions of sound and meaning. What is the scope of this inquiry? Which aspect of nature does this science investigate? What is its relation to the…
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- 9780262280310
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- 1 online resource (xix, 278 pages) :illustrations, music
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Structures in the Mind: Essays on Language, Music, and Cognition in Honor of …
The introduction includes appreciations of Ray Jackendoff by various authors.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262331791
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- 1 online resource (xxxiv, 404 pages) :illustrations
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Theoretical Perspectives on Language Deficits
A Bradford book."This critical history of research on acquired language deficits (aphasias) demonstrates the usefulness of linguistic analysis of aphasic syndrome for neuropsychology, linguistics, and psycholinguistics. Drawing on new empirical studies, Grodzinsky concludes that the use of grammatical tools for the description of the aphasias is critical. The selective nature of these deficits …
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- 9780262274357
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- 1 online resource (xviii, 192 pages).
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Cognitive Models of Speech Processing: Psycholinguistic and Computational Per…
Cognitive Models of Speech Processing presents extensive reviews of current thinking on psycholinguistic and computational topics in speech recognition and natural-language processing, along with a substantial body of new experimental data and computational simulations. Topics range from lexical access and the recognition of words in continuous speech to syntactic processing and the relationshi…
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- 9780262267076
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- 1 online resource (x, 540 pages) :illustrations.
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Coherence in Natural Language: Data Structures and Applications
A discussion of coherence in natural language that develops criteria for descriptively adequate data structures and examines the influence of coherence on psycholinguistic processes and determining the relative importance of document segments.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262286398
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- 1 online resource (vi, 137 pages) :illustrations
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The neural architecture of grammar
"A comprehensive, neurally based theory of language function that draws on principles of neuroanatomy, cognitive psychology, cognitive neuropsychology, psycholinguistics, and parallel distributed processing."--Provided by publisher.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262301619
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 204 pages) :illustrations
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Language vs. reality :why language is good for lawyers and bad for scientists
"Argues that the primary function of language is not to describe the physical world but to manage the social one. Aimed at a general readership"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262368766
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- 1 online resource (ix, 298 pages) :illustrations
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The open handbook of linguistic data management
A guide to principles and methods for the management, archiving, sharing, and citing of linguistic research data, especially digital data.Doing language science depends on collecting, transcribing, annotating, analyzing, storing, and sharing linguistic research data. This volume offers a guide to linguistic data management, engaging with current trends toward the transformation of linguistics i…
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- 9780262362177
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Oratio obliqua, oratio recta :an essay on metarepresentation
Among the entities that can be mentally or linguistically represented are mental and linguistic representations themselves. That is, we can think and talk about speech and thought. This phenomenon is known as metarepresentation. An example is "Authors believe that people read books." In this book François Recanati discusses the structure of metarepresentation from a variety of perspectives. A…
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