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  • The Signs of a Savant

    Language Against the Odds

    by Neil Smith, Ianthi Tsimpli, Gary Morgan, Bencie Woll ...
    Every once in a while nature gives us insight into the human condition by providing us with a unique case whose special properties illuminate the species as a whole. Christopher is such an example. Despite disabilities which mean that everyday tasks are burdensome chores, Christopher is a linguistic wonder who can read, write, speak, understand and translate more than twenty languages. On some ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • The Prefunctional Stage of First Language Acquistion (RLE Linguistics C: Applied Linguistics)

    A Crosslinguistic Study

    Edited by Ianthi-Maria Tsimpli ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Linguistics
    This book provides a theory of first language acquisition in the syntactic framework of the theory of Universal Grammar. It addresses issues related to the earliest stage of development which ends roughly around the child’s second birthday. The theory put forward capitalises on the traditional observation that early child grammars characteristically lack lexical and morphological elements which ... Read more

    $94.99 CAD

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    Brain, Meaning, Grammar, Evolution

    by Ray Jackendoff ...
    How does human language work? How do we put ideas into words that others can understand? Can linguistics shed light on the way the brain operates? Foundations of Language puts linguistics back at the centre of the search to understand human consciousness. Ray Jackendoff begins by surveying the developments in linguistics over the years since Noam Chomsky's Aspects of the Theory of Syntax. He goes ... Read more

    $40.99 CAD

  • The Geometry of Meaning

    Semantics Based on Conceptual Spaces

    by Peter Gardenfors ...
    A novel cognitive theory of semantics that proposes that the meanings of words can be described in terms of geometric structures.In The Geometry of Meaning, Peter Gärdenfors proposes a theory of semantics that bridges cognitive science and linguistics and shows how theories of cognitive processes, in particular concept formation, can be exploited in a general semantic model. He argues that our ... Read more

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  • Understanding Semantics

    by Sebastian Loebner ...
    Series series Understanding Language
    Understanding Semantics, Second Edition, provides an engaging and accessible introduction to linguistic semantics. The first part takes the reader through a step-by-step guide to the main phenomena and notions of semantics, covering levels and dimensions of meaning, ambiguity, meaning and context, logical relations and meaning relations, the basics of noun semantics, verb semantics and sentence ... Read more

    $96.99 CAD

  • Clause Structure

    by Elly van Gelderen ...
    Series series Key Topics in Syntax
    Clause structure is the most widely-studied phenomenon within syntactic theory, because it refers to how words and phrases are embedded within a sentence, their relationships to each other within a sentence, and ultimately, how sentences are layered and represented in the human brain. This volume presents a clear and up-to-date overview of the Minimalist Program, synthesizes the most important ... Read more

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  • Non-axiomatic Logic: A Model Of Intelligent Reasoning

    by Pei Wang ...
    This book provides a systematic and comprehensive description of Non-Axiomatic Logic, which is the result of the author's research for about three decades.Non-Axiomatic Logic is designed to provide a uniform logical foundation for Artificial Intelligence, as well as an abstract description of the “laws of thought” followed by the human mind. Different from “mathematical” logic, where the focus is ... Read more

    $42.99 CAD

  • The Cambridge Handbook of Generative Syntax

    Edited by Marcel den Dikken ...
    Series series Cambridge Handbooks in Language and Linguistics
    Syntax – the study of sentence structure – has been at the centre of generative linguistics from its inception and has developed rapidly and in various directions. The Cambridge Handbook of Generative Syntax provides a historical context for what is happening in the field of generative syntax today, a survey of the various generative approaches to syntactic structure available in the literature ... Read more

    $67.99 CAD

  • The New Psychology of Language

    Cognitive and Functional Approaches To Language Structure, Volume II

    Edited by Michael Tomasello ...
    From the point of view of psychology and cognitive science, much of modern linguistics is too formal and mathematical to be of much use. The newly emerging approaches to language termed, "Functional and Cognitive Linguistics," however, are much less formally oriented. Instead, functional and cognitive approaches to language structure are typically couched in terms already familiar to cognitive ... Read more

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  • Syntax

    Basic Concepts and Applications

    by Robert Freidin ...
    Syntax: Basic Concepts and Applications provides a systematic introduction to core topics in syntax, focusing on how the basic concepts apply in the analysis of sentences. Assuming no background in linguistic analysis, the book gives students a working knowledge of syntactic analysis from a minimalist perspective. Step by step it explains the fundamentals of phrase structure, movement and deletion ... Read more

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  • Phonology

    A Cognitive View

    by Jonathan Kaye ...
    Series series Tutorial Essays in Cognitive Science Series
    Designed to acquaint the reader with the field of phonology -- the study of the systems of linguistically significant sounds -- this book begins with a brief introduction to linguistics and a discussion of phonology's place within that field. It then goes on to cover a variety of topics including the nature of phonological units, phonological rules, which types of phenomena interest phonologists, ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Handbook of Morphology

    Edited by Andrew Hippisley, Gregory Stump ...
    Series series Cambridge Handbooks in Language and Linguistics
    The Cambridge Handbook of Morphology describes the diversity of morphological phenomena in the world's languages, surveying the methodologies by which these phenomena are investigated and the theoretical interpretations that have been proposed to explain them. The Handbook provides morphologists with a comprehensive account of the interlocking issues and hypotheses that drive research in ... Read more

    $197.99 CAD