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  • A Companion to Chomsky

    Series series Blackwell Companions to Philosophy
    Widely considered to be one of the most important public intellectuals of our time, Noam Chomsky has revolutionized modern linguistics. His thought has had a profound impact upon the philosophy of language, mind, and science, as well as the interdisciplinary field of cognitive science which his work helped to establish. Now, in this new Companion dedicated to his substantial body of work and the ... Read more

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  • Chomsky

    Ideas and Ideals

    Noam Chomsky continues to be one of the most influential intellectual figures of modern times. His wide-ranging contributions to the fields of linguistics, psychology, philosophy and politics have revolutionised our view of language, the mind and human nature. Assuming no prior knowledge of linguistics, this book explores Chomsky's key theories, especially recent developments in his Minimalist ... Read more

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    by Steven Pinker ...
    Language, Cognition, and Human Nature collects together for the first time much of Steven Pinker's most influential scholarly work on language and cognition. Pinker's seminal research explores the workings of language and its connections to cognition, perception, social relationships, child development, human evolution, and theories of human nature. This eclectic collection spans Pinker's thirty ... Read more

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  • Mental Logic

    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

    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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  • Language, Consciousness, Culture

    Essays on Mental Structure

    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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  • 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

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  • Corpus Linguistics

    Method, Theory and Practice

    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 Cambridge Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics

    Edited by Barbara Dancygier ...
    Series series Cambridge Handbooks in Language and Linguistics
    The best survey of cognitive linguistics available, this Handbook provides a thorough explanation of its rich methodology, key results, and interdisciplinary context. With in-depth coverage of the research questions, basic concepts, and various theoretical approaches, the Handbook addresses newly emerging subfields and shows their contribution to the discipline. The Handbook introduces fields of ... Read more

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  • The Handbook of Phonological Theory

    Series Book 75 - Blackwell 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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  • The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics

    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics presents a comprehensive overview of the main theoretical concepts and descriptive/theoretical models of Cognitive Linguistics, and covers its various subfields, theoretical as well as applied. The first twenty chapters give readers the opportunity to acquire a thorough knowledge of the fundamental analytic concepts and descriptive models of Cognitive ... Read more

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  • Formal Languages in Logic

    A Philosophical and Cognitive Analysis

    Formal languages are widely regarded as being above all mathematical objects and as producing a greater level of precision and technical complexity in logical investigations because of this. Yet defining formal languages exclusively in this way offers only a partial and limited explanation of the impact which their use (and the uses of formalisms more generally elsewhere) actually has. In this ... Read more

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