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From molecule to metaphor: A Neural theory of language
"A Bradford book."In From Molecule to Metaphor, Jerome Feldman proposes a theory of language and thought that treats language not as an abstract symbol system but as a human biological ability that can be studied as a function of the brain, as vision and motor control are studied. This theory, he writes, is a "bridging theory" that works from extensive knowledge at two ends of a causal chain to…
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Translating happiness :a cross-cultural lexicon of well-being
How embracing untranslatable terms for well-being - from the Finnish sisu to the Yiddish mensch - can enrich our emotional understanding and experience. Western psychology is rooted in the philosophies and epistemologies of Western culture. But what of concepts and insights from outside this frame of reference?OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262344630
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- 1 online resource (xv, 223 pages)
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A Two-Tiered Theory of Control
"This book revives and reinterprets a persistent intuition running through much of the classical work: that the unitary appearance of Obligatory Control into complements conceals an underlying duality of structure and mechanism. Idan Landau argues that control complements divide into two types: In attitude contexts, control is established by logophoric anchoring, while non-attitude contexts it …
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- 9780262327251
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- 1 online resource (x, 114 pages) :illustrations.
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The minimalist program
In his foundational book published in 1995, the author offered a significant contribution to the generative tradition in linguistics. This twentieth-anniversary edition reissues this classic work with a new preface by the author. The author attempts to situate linguistic theory in the broader cognitive sciences, with the chapters formulating and progressively developing the minimalist approach …
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- 20th anniversary edition.
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- 9780262327282
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Concepts, syntax, and their interface :the Theta System
A systematic exposition of Reinhart's Theta System, with extensive annotations and essays that capture subsequent developments. One of Tanya Reinhart's major contributions to linguistic theory is the development of the Theta System (TS), a theory of the interface between the system of concepts and the linguistic computational system. Reinhart introduced her theory in a seminal paper, “The …
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- 9780262333177
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- 1 online resource (xvi, 262 pages).
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Image, language, brain : papers from the First Mind Articulation Project Symp…
Revised papers from a symposium held November 16-17, 1998 in Tokyo.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262303040
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- 1 online resource (x, 272 pages) : illustrations
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Modularity in knowledge representation and natural-language understanding
"A Bradford book."The notion of modularity, introduced by Noam Chomsky and developed with special emphasis on perceptual and linguistic processes by Jerry Fodor in his important book The Modularity of Mind, has provided a significant stimulus to research in cognitive science. This book presents essays in which a diverse group of philosophers, linguists, psycholinguists, and neuroscientists--inc…
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- 9780262071055
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- 1 online resource (ix, 427 pages) :illustrations.
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Biological foundations and origin of syntax
Syntax is arguably the most human-specific aspect of language. Despite the proto-linguistic capacities of some animals, syntax appears to be the last major evolutionary transition in humans that has some genetic basis. Yet what are the elements to a scenario that can explain such a transition? In this book, experts from linguistics, neurology and neurobiology, cognitive psychology, ecology and …
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- 9780262258586
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- 1 online resource (xviii, 471 pages) :illustrations (some color).
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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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Supertagging :using complex lexical descriptions in natural language processing
The last decade has seen computational implementations of large hand-crafted natural language grammars in formal frameworks such as Tree-Adjoining Grammar (TAG), Combinatory Categorical Grammar (CCG), Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG), and Lexical Functional Grammar (LFG). Grammars in these frameworks typically associate linguistically motivated rich descriptions (Supertags) with word…
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- 1 online resource (xxiii, 488 pages :illustrations)
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