Creating language :integrating evolution, acquisition, and processing

A work that reveals the profound links between the evolution, acquisition, and processing of language, and proposes a new integrative framework for the language sciences.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

Restriction and saturation

Dengan studi tentang Maori dan Chamorro ini, Sandra Chung dan William Ladusaw memberikan kontribusi yang berharga bagi literatur yang berkembang mengenai analisis semantik formal bahasa-bahasa non-Indo-Eropa. Fokus utama mereka adalah pada bagaimana studi bahasa-bahasa Austronesia ini dapat menjelaskan alternatif-alternatif untuk interpretasi semantik dan interaksinya dengan struktur sintaksis.…

The discovery of spoken language

"A Bradford book."The Discovery of Spoken Language marks one of the first efforts to integrate the field of infant speech perception research into the general study of language acquisition. It fills in a key part of the acquisition story by providing an extensive review of research on the acquisition of language during the first year of life, focusing primarily on how normally developing infant…

The Elm and the Expert: Mentalese and Its Semantics

"A Bradford book."OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

Meaning in the brain

An argument that the meaning of written or auditory linguistic signals is not derived from the input but results from the brain's internal construction process. When we read a text or listen to speech, meaning seems to be given to us instantaneously, as if it were part of the input. In Meaning in the Brain, Giosue Baggio explains that this is an illusion created by the tremendous speed at which…

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…

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.

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…

Structures in the Mind: Essays on Language, Music, and Cognition in Honor of …

The introduction includes appreciations of Ray Jackendoff by various authors.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

"Language and Space "

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