Search results for “[Subject: language]”

• Author(s): S. -Y Kuroda • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralGenerative phonology, a comparatively recent development on the linguistic front, has stimulated a reconsideration of the conceptual sch...

• Author(s): Anne Cutler • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Linguistics - Psycholinguistics - GeneralAn argument that the way we listen to speech is shaped by our experience with our native language.Understanding speec...

• Author(s): Thierry Poibeau • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • Subject: Computer Science and Information Technology • BISAC: Artificial Intelligence - Natural Language ProcessingA concise, nontechnical overview of the develo...

• Author(s): Gita Martohardjono • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Linguistics - SyntaxExplorations of language development in different types of learner populations and across various languages. This volume examines l...

• Author(s): Morten H. Christiansen | Nick Chater | Peter W. Culicover • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Linguistics - Psycholinguistics - GeneralA work that reveals the profound links between the evolution, acquisiti...

• Author(s): Ezequiel A. Di Paolo | Elena Clare Cuffari | Hanne de Jaegher • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Cognitive Psychology & CognitionA novel theoretical framework for an embodied, non-representational appr...

• Author(s): Thomas G. Bever | John M. Carroll | Lance A. Miller • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThese essays by some of the most prominent figures in linguistics, artificial intelligence, and p...

• Author(s): David McNeill • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralA new way of viewing language, as a dynamic mode of meaning-making of which gesture is a fundamental part. When David McNeill began his...

• Author(s): James F. Kavanagh | Ignatius G. Mattingly • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralA collection of papers exploring why children acquire speech easily yet bog down when it comes to learning ...

• Author(s): Marina Yaguello • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralAn exploration of the practice of inventing languages, from speaking in tongues to utopian schemes of universality to the discoveries...

• Author(s): Michael Studdert-Kennedy • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: NeuroscienceWhat is language? Can we distinguish language from general cognition? Is language an isolable, biologically coherent system? Does the...

• Author(s): David W. Lightfoot • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralOver the past decade, generative grammarians have viewed language acquisition as a process of fixing option points or parameters d...

• Author(s): Susumu Kuno • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: JapaneseConventional grammars tell us when we can use given grammatical patterns. However, they almost invariably fail to tell us when we cannot use them. Man...