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The acquisition of syntactic knowledge
"This landmark work in computational linguistics is of great importance both theoretically and practically because it shows that much of English grammar can be learned by a simple program. The Acquisition of Syntactic Knowledge investigates the central questions of human and machine cognition: How do people learn language? How can we get a machine to learn language? It first presents an explici…
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- 0585368910
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- 1 online resource (xii, 368 pages) :illustrations.
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Languages of the mind :essays on mental representation
"A Bradford Book."Over the past two decades, Ray Jackendoff has persistently tackled difficult issues in the theory of mind and related theories of cognitive processing. Chief among his contributions is a formal theory that elaborates the nature of language and its relationship to a broad set of other domains. Languages of the Mind provides convenient access to Jackendoff's work over the past f…
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- 9780262276122
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- 1 online resource (216 pages).
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Language :structure, processing, and disorders
"A Bradford book."This theoretical guide for speech-language pathologists, neuropsychologists, neurologists, and cognitive psychologists describes the linguistic and psycholinguistic basis of aphasias that are a result of acquired neurological disease. Caplan first outlines contemporary concepts and models in language processing and then shows in detail how these are related to language disorde…
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- 0585353433
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- 1 online resource.
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Language, logic, and concepts :essays in memory of John Macnamara
"A Bradford book."OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 0585337012
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- 1 online resource (xxvii, 470 pages) :illustrations
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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, 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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Sentence comprehension :the integration of rules and habits
"A Bradford book."OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262316156
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- 1 online resource (x, 445 pages)
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Speaking :from intention to articulation
"A Bradford book."OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262278225
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 566 pages) :illustrations.
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