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  • The Child and the World

    How the Child Acquires Language; How Language Mirrors the World

    by Robin Allott ...
    The Child and the World! There is nothing more wonderful to watch than a small child, 2 or 3 years old, speaking to its mother, holding a conversation with its mother. It seems miraculous that in such a short period a child can reach so far in its use of this most precious of human possessions, language. In this book I consider how it is possible that a child can acquire all the complexities of ... Read more

    $5.39 USD

  • The Physical Foundation of Language

    Exploration of a Hypothesis

    by Robin Allott ...
    There is no available information at this time. ... Read more

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  • The Motor Theory of Language Origin

    1989

    by Robin Allott ...
    The motor theory is about the process by which language emerged and developed and how it functions now in human speech. The concern is with both synchronic and the diachronic aspects of language, language evolving over time and differentiating over space. In English alone we have half a million words and endless syntatic complexities, as Chomsky has demonstrated. Add the multitude of other ... Read more

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  • The Natural Origin of Language

    The Structural Inter-Relation of Language, Visual Perception and Action

    by Robin Allott ...
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  • The Great Mosaic Eye

    Embodied Language Evolution and Society

    by Robin Allott ...
    This is a revised and extended version of the Great Mosaic Eye originally published in 2001. There have been major changes in neuroscience and in language research since then. Apparently disparate segments of research have started to come together and it is necessary to recast both the structure and the content of the book. The extended title of the book with the addition of the word Society ... Read more

    $5.39 USD

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  • Linguistic Semantics

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    This volume is a comprehensive, up-to-date, and readable introduction to linguistic meaning. While partial to conceptual and typological approaches, the book also presents results from formal approaches. Throughout, the focus is on grammatical meaning -- the way languages delineate universal semantic space and encode it in grammatical form.Subjects covered by the author include: the domain of ... Read more

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  • The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Temporal Experience

    Edited by Ian Phillips ...
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    Experience is inescapably temporal. But how do we experience time? Temporal experience is a fundamental subject in philosophy – according to Husserl, the most important and difficult of all. Its puzzles and paradoxes were of critical interest from the Early Moderns through to the Post-Kantians. After a period of relative neglect, temporal experience is again at the forefront of debates across a ... Read more

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  • An Introduction to the Psychology of Language (PLE: Psycholinguistics)

    by Peter Herriot ...
    Series series Psychology Library Editions: Psycholinguistics
    Originally published in 1970, this was Peter Herriot’s first book. In this objective, critical evaluation of a rapidly expanding field, Professor Herriot examines language as skilled behaviour, generative linguistics and psychology, behaviourist approaches to meaning, language acquisition and impairment, and language and thought. He stresses throughout the necessity for empirical research and for ... Read more

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  • The Character of Consciousness

    by David J. Chalmers ...
    Series series Philosophy of Mind Series
    What is consciousness? How does the subjective character of consciousness fit into an objective world? How can there be a science of consciousness? In this sequel to his groundbreaking and controversial The Conscious Mind, David Chalmers develops a unified framework that addresses these questions and many others. Starting with a statement of the "hard problem" of consciousness, Chalmers builds a ... Read more

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  • The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World

    The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World

    by Iain McGilchrist ...
    Why is the brain divided? The difference between right and left hemispheres has been puzzled over for centuries. In a book of unprecedented scope, Iain McGilchrist draws on a vast body of recent brain research, illustrated with case histories, to reveal that the difference is profound—not just this or that function, but two whole, coherent, but incompatible ways of experiencing the world. The left ... Read more

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  • The Emotions

    Outline of a Theory

    by Jean-Paul Sartre ...
    Translated by Bernard Frechtman ...
    One of the leading twentieth-century French existentialist philosophers examines how human emotions shape our existence.In The Emotions: Outline of a Theory, French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre attempts to understand the role emotions play in the human psyche. Sartre analyzes fear, lust, anguish, and melancholy while asserting that human beings begin to develop emotional capabilities from a very ... Read more

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