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The Evolution of Cognition
"A Bradford book."In the last decade, "evolutionary psychology" has come to refer exclusively to research on human mentality and behavior, motivated by a nativist interpretation of how evolution operates. This book encompasses the behavior and mentality of nonhuman as well as human animals and a full range of evolutionary approaches. Rather than a collection by and for the like-minded, it is a …
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- 9780262275330
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- 1 online resource (viii, 386 pages) :illustrations.
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Flexibility Principles in Boolean Semantics: The Interpretation of Coordinati…
An investigation of the logical flexibility principles needed for a formal semantic account of coordination, plurality, and scope in natural language.Since the early work of Montague, Boolean semantics and its subfield of generalized quantifier theory have become the model-theoretic foundation for the study of meaning in natural languages. This book uses this framework to develop a new semantic…
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- 9780262286374
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- 1 online resource (x, 297 pages) :illustrations.
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From Embryology to Evo-Devo: A History of Developmental Evolution
Historians, philosophers, sociologists, and biologists explore the history of the idea that embryological development and evolution are linked.Although we now know that ontogeny (individual development) does not actually recapitulate phylogeny (evolutionary transformation), contrary to Ernst Haeckel's famous dictum, the relationship between embryological development and evolution remains the su…
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- 9780262277976
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- 1 online resource (vii, 569 pages) :illustrations.
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Features of person :from the inventory of persons to their morphological real…
This book offers a significant reconceptualization of the person system in natural language. The authors, leading scholars in syntax and its interfaces, propose that person features do not have inherent content but are used to navigate a "person space" at the heart of every pronominal expression. They map the journey of person features in grammar, from semantics through syntax to the system of …
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- 9780262347365
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From Monkey Brain to Human Brain: A Fyssen Foundation Symposium
"Proceedings of the ninth Fyssen Symposium entitled "From monkey brain to human brain" which was held at the Pavillon Henry IV in St-Germain-en-Laye from 20 to 23 June 2003"--Preface.Leaders in cognitive psychology, comparative biology, and neuroscience discuss patterns of convergence and divergence seen in studies of human and nonhuman primate brains.The extraordinary overlap between human and…
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- 9780262271417
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- 1 online resource (xvii, 400 pages) :illustrations (some color).
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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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Learning at not-school :a review of study, theory, and advocacy for education…
Schools do not define education, and they are not the only institutions in which learning takes place. After-school programs, music lessons, Scouts, summer camps, on-the-job training, and home activities all offer out-of-school educational experiences. In "Learning at Not-School," Julian Sefton-Green explores studies and scholarly research on out-of-school learning, investigating just what it i…
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- 9780262311984
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- 1 online resource (vi, 92 pages).
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Probes and their horizons
A comprehensive theory of selective opacity effects--configurations in which syntactic domains are opaque to some processes but transparent to others--within a Minimalist framework. In this book, Stefan Keine investigates in detail "selective opacity"-- configurations in which syntactic domains are opaque to some processes but transparent to others--and develops a comprehensive theory of these …
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- 9780262357319
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- 1 online resource (384 pages).
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Morphology and computation
"Richard Sproat is Member of the Technical Staff at the AT & T Bell Laboratories.""A Bradford book.""This book provides the first broad yet thorough coverage of issues in morphological theory. It includes a wide array of techniques and systems in computational morphology (including discussion of their limitations), and describes some unusual applications. Sproat motivates the study of computati…
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- 0585038341
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- 1 online resource (xv, 295 pages) :illustrations.
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Edge-based clausal syntax: A study of (mostly) English object structure
An argument that there are three kinds of English grammatical objects, each with different syntactic properties. In Edge-Based Clausal Syntax, Paul Postal rejects the notion that an English phrase of the form [V + DP] invariably involves a grammatical relation properly characterized as a direct object. He argues instead that at least three distinct relations occur in such a structure. The di…
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- 9780262295482
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- 1 online resource (xvi, 465 pages) :illustrations
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