Foundations of Language

Author: Ray Jackendoff
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191574015
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 498

Book Description
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 on to propose a radical re-conception of how the brain processes language. This opens up vivid new perspectives on every major aspect of language and communication, including grammar, vocabulary, learning, the origins of human language, and how language relates to the real world. Foundations of Language makes important connections with other disciplines which have been isolated from linguistics for many years. It sets a new agenda for close cooperation between the study of language, mind, the brain, behaviour, and evolution.

Biological Foundations of Language

Author: Eric H. Lenneberg
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 518

Book Description
"The study of language is pertinent to many fields of inquiry. It is relevant to psychology, anthropology, philosophy, and medicine. It encroaches upon the humanities, as well as upon the social and natural sciences. We may pursue investigations that concentrate on what man has done with or to specific languages; or we may regard language as a natural phenomenon- an aspect of his biological nature, to be studied in the same manner as, for instance, his anatomy. Which of these approaches is to be chosen is entirely a matter of personal curiosity. This book is concerned with the biological aspects of language." -- Preface

Language Development: Foundations, Processes, and Clinical Applications

Author: Brian B. Shulman
Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Publishers
ISBN: 1449659705
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 538

Book Description
Your ideal textbook for undergraduate speech-langauge curriculum courses in language development and language acquisition! This comprehensive resource, written by experts in the field, offers an accessible overview of language development to the undergraduate student. The book's 15 chapters are divided into two parts: Basis of Language and Communication Development and Language and Communication Development. A key feature of the book are the clinical practice applications, which will help your students prepare for the situations they will face in their careers. Companion Web site with the following helpful resources: Instructor Resources: PowerpointTM Slides, Discussion Questions, Chapter Quizzes, TestBank, and Assignments and Activities. Student Resources: Flash Cards, Crossword Puzzles, and an Interactive Glossary.

Cognitive Linguistics - Foundations of Language

Author: Ewa Dąbrowska
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110623145
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 446

Book Description
Cognitive foundations of language introduces the reader to the abilities and processes in which research in Cognitive Linguistics is grounded. The book looks at key concepts, such as embodiment, salience, entrenchment, construal, categorization, and collaborative communication, and discusses their genesis and implications for cognitive linguistic research.

Foundations of Statistical Natural Language Processing

Author: Christopher Manning
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262303795
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 719

Book Description
Statistical approaches to processing natural language text have become dominant in recent years. This foundational text is the first comprehensive introduction to statistical natural language processing (NLP) to appear. The book contains all the theory and algorithms needed for building NLP tools. It provides broad but rigorous coverage of mathematical and linguistic foundations, as well as detailed discussion of statistical methods, allowing students and researchers to construct their own implementations. The book covers collocation finding, word sense disambiguation, probabilistic parsing, information retrieval, and other applications.

Foundations of Language & Literature

Author: Renee H. Shea
Publisher: Macmillan Higher Education
ISBN: 1319471005
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 2420

Book Description
Foundations of Language and Literature provides all 9th grade ELA learners with the skills and practice needed to achieve success in high school and beyond.

Foundations for a Science of Language

Author: Gustave Guillaume
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027280134
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 201

Book Description
This volume presents, for the first time in English, a representative view of Gustave Guillaume's thought. The texts, drawn mainly from his manuscript notes for lectures at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes in Paris, were selected as far as possible for their accessibility, as requiring no prior knowledge of his work. The result is a panorama of the far-ranging and often provocative thought of one of the twentieth century's most original linguists.

Philosophical Foundations of Language in the Law

Author: Andrei Marmor
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191654752
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 288

Book Description
This collection brings together the best contemporary philosophical work in the area of intersection between philosophy of language and the law. Some of the contributors are philosophers of language who are interested in applying advances in philosophy of language to legal issues, and some of the participants are philosophers of law who are interested in applying insights and theories from philosophy of language to their work on the nature of law and legal interpretation. By making this body of recent work available in a single volume, readers will gain both a general overview of the various interactions between language and law, and also detailed analyses of particular areas in which this interaction is manifest. The contributions to this volume are grouped under three main general areas: The first area concerns a critical assessment, in light of recent advances in philosophy of language, of the foundational role of language in understanding the nature of law itself. The second main area concerns a number of ways in which an understanding of language can resolve some of the issues prevalent in legal interpretation, such as the various ways in which semantic content can differ from law's assertive content; the contribution of presuppositions and pragmatic implicatures in understanding what the law conveys; the role of vagueness in legal language, for example. The third general topic concerns the role of language in the context of particular legal doctrines and legal solutions to practical problems, such as the legal definitions of inchoate crimes, the legal definition of torture, or the contractual doctrines concerning default rules. Together, these three key issues cover a wide range of philosophical interests in law that can be elucidated by a better understanding of language and linguistic communication.

Foundations of Object-oriented Languages

Author: Kim B. Bruce
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 9780262025232
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 416

Book Description
A presentation of the formal underpinnings of object-oriented programming languages.

Practical Foundations for Programming Languages

Author: Robert Harper
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107150302
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 513

Book Description
This book unifies a broad range of programming language concepts under the framework of type systems and structural operational semantics.