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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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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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- 9780262282178
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- 1 online resource (xviii, 360 pages).
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The paradox of self-consciousness
"A Bradford book."In this book, Jose Luis Bermudez addresses two fundamental problems in the philosophy and psychology of self-consciousness: (1) Can we provide a noncircular account of full-fledged self-conscious thought and language in terms of more fundamental capacities? (2) Can we explain how full-fledged self-conscious thought and language can arise in the normal course of human developme…
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- 0585190089
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 338 pages) :illustrations.
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Ostension: Word Learning and the Embodied Mind
"Ostension is bodily movement that manifests our engagement with things, whether we wish it to or not. Gestures, glances, facial expressions: all betray our interest in something. Ostension enables our first word learning, providing infants with a prelinguistic way to grasp the meaning of words. Ostension is philosophically puzzling; it cuts across domains seemingly unbridgeable--public--privat…
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- 9780262320610
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- 1 online resource (xxix, 305 pages)
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Productivity and Reuse in Language: A Theory of Linguistic Computation and St…
"Language allows us to express and comprehend an unbounded number of thoughts. This fundamental and much-celebrated property is made possible by a division of labor between a large inventory of stored items (e.g., affixes, words, idioms) and a computational system that productively combines these stored units on the fly to create a potentially unlimited array of new expressions. A language lear…
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- 9780262326803
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- 1 online resource (xii, 337 pages) :illustrations
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Concepts, kinds, and cognitive development
In Concepts, Kinds, and Cognitive Development, Frank C. Keil provides a coherent account of how concepts and word meanings develop in children, adding to our understanding of the representational nature of concepts and word meanings at all ages. "A Bradford book."Includes indexes.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262276900
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- 1 online resource (xv, 328 pages) :illustrations.
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Connections and symbols
"Reprinted from Cognition ... volume 28 (1988)"--Title page verso."A Bradford book."OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262315852
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- 1 online resource (255 pages) :illustrations.
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Perception, cognition, and language :essays in honor of Henry and Lila Gleitman
"A Bradford book."OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262316088
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- 1 online resource (x, 360 pages) :illustrations
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Sensorimotor Cognition and Natural Language Syntax
A proposal that the syntactic structure of a sentence reporting a concrete episode in the world can be interpreted as a description of the sensorimotor processes involved in experiencing that episode.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 1283707527
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- 1 online resource (xi, 392 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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