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Types and tokens: On abstract objects
A consideration of the distinction between the spatiotemporal furniture of the world (tokens) and the types of which they are instances, and an argument that types exist. There is a widely recognized but infrequently discussed distinction between the spatiotemporal furniture of the world (tokens) and the types of which they are instances. Words come in both types and tokens—for example, th…
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- 9780262259279
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- 1 online resource (xvi, 180 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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The dependencies of objects
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- 9780262285094
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- 1 online resource (xii, 197 pages) :illustrations.
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Distributed morphology today : morphemes for Morris Halle
"This festschrift honors Morris Halle, on the occasion of his 90th birthday, for his many foundational and lasting contributions to our understanding of morphology."This book offers a snapshot of current research in distributed morphology, highlighting the lasting influence of Morris Halle, a pioneer in generative linguistics. Distributed morphology, which integrates the morphological with the …
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- 9781461935650
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- 1 online resource (xvi, 262 pages)
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Investigations in universal grammar : a guide to experiments on the acquisiti…
This introductory guide to language acquisition research is presented within the framework of Universal Grammar, a theory of the human faculty for language. The authors focus on two experimental techniques for assessing children's linguistic competence: the Elicited Production task, a production task, and the Truth Value Judgment task, a comprehension task. Their methodologies are designed to o…
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- 0585360723
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- 1 online resource (ix, 342 pages).
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- 400 CRA i
processing and acquisition of reference
This book brings together contributions by prominent researchers in the fields of language processing and language acquisition on topics of common interest: how people refer to objects in the world, how people comprehend such referential expressions, and how children acquire the ability to refer and to understand reference.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262295888
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- 1 online resource (vi, 443 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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Plasticity of development
Revised papers presented at a series of lectures, during the 1986-87 academic year. Organized by the Program for Developmental Research, University of Maryland, College Park."A Bradford book."Errata slip inserted.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262269193
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- 1 online resource (viii, 182 pages) :illustrations
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Linguistics for the Age of AI
A human-inspired, linguistically sophisticated model of language understanding for intelligent agent systems. One of the original goals of artificial intelligence research was to endow intelligent agents with human-level natural language capabilities. Recent AI research, however, has focused on applying statistical and machine learning approaches to big data rather than attempting to model w…
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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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