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  • Discourse Function & Syntactic Form in Natural Language Generation

    by Cassandre Creswell ...
    Series series Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics
    Users of natural languages have many word orders with which to encode the same truth-conditional meaning. They choose contextually appropriate strings from these many ways with little conscious effort and with effective communicative results. Previous computational models of when English speakers produce non-canonical word orders, like topicalization, left-dislocation and clefts, fail. The primary ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

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    What Categories Reveal about the Mind

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  • Pragmatics

    by Stephen C. Levinson ...
    Series series Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics
    Those aspects of language use that are crucial to an understanding of language as a system, and especially to an understanding of meaning, are the acknowledged concern of linguistic pragmatics. This textbook provides a lucid and integrative analysis of the central topics in pragmatics - deixis, implicature, presupposition, speech acts, and conversational structure. A central concern of the book is ... Read more

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  • Mental Logic

    Edited by Martin D.S. Braine, David P. O'Brien ...
    Over the past decade, the question of whether there is a mental logic has become subject to considerable debate. There have been attacks by critics who believe that all reasoning uses mental models and return attacks on mental-models theory. This controversy has invaded various journals and has created issues between mental logic and the biases-and-heuristics approach to reasoning, and the content ... Read more

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  • Foundations of Language

    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

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  • 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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  • Language, Consciousness, Culture

    Essays on Mental Structure

    by Ray S. Jackendoff ...
    Series series Jean Nicod Lectures
    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 breakthrough in ... Read more

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  • Phonological Augmentation in Prominent Positions

    by Jennifer L. Smith ...
    Series series Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics
    Phonologically prominent or "strong" positions are well known for their ability to resist positional neutralization processes such as vowel reduction or place assimilation. However, there are also cases of neutralization that affect only strong positions, as when stressed syllables must be heavy, default stress is inserted into roots, or word-initial onsets must be low in sonority. In this book, ... 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

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  • Corpus Linguistics

    Method, Theory and Practice

    by Tony McEnery, Andrew Hardie ...
    Series series Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics
    Corpus linguistics is the study of language data on a large scale - the computer-aided analysis of very extensive collections of transcribed utterances or written texts. This textbook outlines the basic methods of corpus linguistics, explains how the discipline of corpus linguistics developed and surveys the major approaches to the use of corpus data. It uses a broad range of examples to show how ... Read more

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  • The Handbook of Phonological Theory

    Edited by John A. Goldsmith, Jason Riggle, Alan C. L. Yu ...
    Series Book 75 - Wiley Handbooks in Linguistics
    The Handbook of Phonological Theory, second edition offers an innovative and detailed examination of recent developments in phonology, and the implications of these within linguistic theory and related disciplines.Revised from the ground-up for the second edition, the book is comprised almost entirely of newly-written and previously unpublished chaptersAddresses the important questions in the ... Read more

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    by Abraham Arcavi, Paul Drijvers, Kaye Stacey ...
    Series series IMPACT: Interweaving Mathematics Pedagogy and Content for Teaching
    IMPACT (Interweaving Mathematics Pedagogy and Content for Teaching) is an exciting new series of texts for teacher education which aims to advance the learning and teaching of mathematics by integrating mathematics content with the broader research and theoretical base of mathematics education.The Learning and Teaching of Algebra provides a pedagogical framework for the teaching and learning of ... Read more

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