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Author | : Ángel J. Gallego |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 381 |
Release | : 2018-10-18 |
Genre | : Computers |
ISBN | : 1107152941 |
Download Language, Syntax, and the Natural Sciences Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
An exploration of human language from the perspective of the natural sciences, this outstanding book brings together leading specialists to discuss the scientific connection of language to disciplines such as mathematics, physics, chemistry and biology.
Author | : Juan Uriagereka |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 2018-06-14 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1351622269 |
Download Biolinguistic Investigations and the Formal Language Hierarchy Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This volume collects some of Juan Uriagereka’s previously published pieces and presentations on biolinguistics in recent years in one comprehensive volume. The book’s introduction lays the foundation for the field of biolinguistics, which looks to integrate concepts from the natural sciences in the analysis of natural language, situating the discussion within the minimalist framework. The volume then highlights eight of the author’s key papers from the literature, some co-authored, representative of both the architectural and evolutionary considerations to be taken into account within biolinguistic research. The book culminates in a final chapter showcasing the body of work being done on biolinguistics within the research program at the University of Maryland and their implications for interdisciplinary research and future directions for the field. This volume is essential reading for students and scholars interested in the interface between language and the natural sciences, including linguistics, syntax, biology, archaeology, and anthropology.
Author | : Ryan M. Nefdt |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 444 |
Release | : 2021-03-30 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 3030554384 |
Download The Philosophy and Science of Language Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This volume brings together a diverse range of scholars to address important philosophical and interdisciplinary questions in the study of language. Linguistics throughout history has been a conduit to the study of the mind, brain, societal structure, literature and history itself. The epistemic and methodological transfer between the sciences and humanities in regards to linguistics has often been documented, but the underlying philosophical issues have not always been adequately addressed. With 15 original and interdisciplinary chapters, this volume therefore tackles vital questions relating to the philosophy, history, and theoretical interplay between the study of language and fields as varied as logic, physics, biology, classical philology and neuroscience. With a four part structure, questions of the mathematical foundations of linguistics, links to the natural sciences, cognitive implications and historical connections, take centre stage throughout the volume. The final chapters present research related to the linguistic connections between history, philosophy and the humanities more broadly. Advancing new avenues of research, this volume is exemplary in its treatment of diachronic and cross-disciplinary interaction, and will be of interest to all scholars interested in the study of language.
Author | : Robin Lemke |
Publisher | : Language Science Press |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 3961103313 |
Download Experimental investigations on the syntax and usage of fragments Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book investigates the syntax and usage of fragments (Morgan 1973), apparently subsentential utterances like "A coffee, please!" which fulfill the same communicative function as the corresponding full sentence "I'd like to have a coffee, please!". Even though such utterances are frequently used, they challenge the central role that has been attributed to the notion of sentence in linguistic theory, particularly from a semantic perspective. The first part of the book is dedicated to the syntactic analysis of fragments, which is investigated with experimental methods. Currently there are several competing theoretical analyses of fragments, which rely almost only on introspective data. The experiments presented in this book constitute a first systematic evaluation of some of their crucial predictions and, taken together, support an in situ ellipsis account of fragments, as has been suggested by Reich (2007). The second part of the book addresses the questions of why fragments are used at all, and under which circumstances they are preferred over complete sentences. Syntactic accounts impose licensing conditions on fragments, but they do not explain, why fragments are sometimes (dis)preferred provided that their usage is licensed. This book proposes an information-theoretic account of fragments, which predicts that the usage of fragments in constrained by a general tendency to distribute processing effort uniformly across the utterance. With respect to fragments, this leads to two predictions, which are empirically confirmed: Speakers tend towards omitting predictable words and they insert additional redundancy before unpredictable words.
Author | : Victor H. Yngve |
Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | : 363 |
Release | : 1996-01-01 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9027221618 |
Download From Grammar to Science Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Although efforts have been under way for the past two centuries to treat language scientifically, linguists and others who work with language, speech, or communication have not found an adequate scientific foundation in current linguistic theory. Many of the difficulties are caused by longstanding confusions between the logical domain of science and grammar and the physical domain of sound waves and the people who speak and understand. In this book, therefore, the last impediments of tradition, the ancient semiotic-grammatical foundations of linguistics, are set aside. We move into the physical domain, where theories and hypotheses can be tested against observations of the physical reality. Here new foundations are laid that are fully consonant with modern science as practiced in physics, chemistry, and biology. On these foundations is built a structure of testable specific dynamic causal laws of communicative behavior that provides support for treating previously recalcitrant context-dependent semantic, pragmatic, interactive, rhetorical, and literary phenomena. The central role of context in the foundations of the theory provides the insights of scientific lawfulness while still honoring the particularity of situations celebrated in the humanities.
Author | : Elliot Murphy |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 338 |
Release | : 2020-11-05 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1108873375 |
Download The Oscillatory Nature of Language Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Drawing on cutting-edge ideas from the biological and cognitive sciences, this book presents both an innovative neuro-computational model of language comprehension and a state-of-the-art review of current topics in neurolinguistics. It explores a range of newly-emerging topics in the biological study of language, building them into a framework which views language as grounded in endogenous neural oscillatory behaviour. This allows the author to formulate a number of hypotheses concerning the relationship between neurobiology and linguistic computation. Murphy also provides an extensive overview of recent theoretical and experimental work on the neurobiological basis of language, from which the reader will emerge up-to-date on major themes and debates. This lively overview of contemporary issues in theoretical linguistics, combined with a clear theory of how language is processed, is essential reading for scholars and students across a range of disciplines.
Author | : Lyle Jenkins |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 2000-03-13 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9781139426411 |
Download Biolinguistics Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book investigates the nature of human language and its importance for the study of the mind. In particular, it examines current work on the biology of language. Lyle Jenkins reviews the evidence that language is best characterized by a generative grammar of the kind introduced by Noam Chomsky in the 1950s and developed in various directions since that time. He then discusses research into the development of language which tries to capture both the underlying universality of human language, as well as the diversity found in individual languages (Universal Grammar). Finally, he discusses a variety of approaches to language design and the evolution of language. An important theme is the integration of biolinguistics into the natural sciences - the 'unification problem'. Jenkins also answers criticisms of the biolinguistic approach from a number of other perspectives, including evolutionary psychology, cognitive science, connectionism and ape language research, among others.
Author | : Noam Chomsky |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 120 |
Release | : 2020-05-18 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 3112316002 |
Download Syntactic Structures Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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Author | : Peter W. Culicover |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 509 |
Release | : 2009-01-29 |
Genre | : Computers |
ISBN | : 019923017X |
Download Natural Language Syntax Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book introduces the analysis of natural language within the broader question of how language works - of how people use languages to configure words and morphemes in order to express meanings. Its step-by-step account covers every aspect of syntax and includes exercises and suggestions for further reading throughout.
Author | : Roman Jakobson |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 76 |
Release | : 2014-06-23 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1317857399 |
Download Main Trends in the Science of Language (Routledge Revivals) Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
First published in Great Britain in 1973, Main Trends in the Science of Language was part of a series of books that resulted from a study carried out by UNESCO in collaboration with national and international research centres in the social sciences, as well as with groups of individual scholars. The book examines the position of linguistics in the years surrounding the publication of the book before considering the subject’s potential, future development. It looks at linguistic vistas, the place of linguistics among the sciences of man and linguistics and natural sciences. This book will be of interest to the educated reader, research workers, and professional associations as well as to national and international institutions that organize, plan and finance scientific research.