The Atoms Of Language The Minds Hidden Rules Of Grammar

Author : Mark C. Baker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Atoms Of Language: The Mind's Hidden Rules Of Grammar written by Mark C. Baker and published by . This book was released on 2001-10-03 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major scientific breakthrough into the common elements of all languages, which give us a deeper insight than ever before into how the mind works.

Author : Mark C. Baker
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Atoms of Language written by Mark C. Baker and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2002 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Human languages are strikingly different from each other, and also strikingly the same. One of the most indecipherable codes used in World War II was Navajos speaking their native language. Yet the Navajos were able to translate messages to and from English quickly and accurately. This shows that, for all their differences, languages must have a strong common denominator. Linguistic research is discovering that, in spite of the differences among human languages, the underlying rules that form them are virtually identical.

Author : Steven Pinker
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 0465049710
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Words and Rules written by Steven Pinker and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2015-07-14 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "If you are not already a Steven Pinker addict, this book will make you one." --Jared Diamond In Words and Rules, Steven Pinker explores profound mysteries of language by picking a deceptively simple phenomenon--regular and irregular verbs--and examining it from every angle. With humor and verve, he covers an astonishing array of topics in the sciences and humanities, from the history of languages to how to simulate languages on computers to major ideas in the history of Western philosophy. Through it all, Pinker presents a single, powerful idea: that language comprises a mental dictionary of memorized words and a mental grammar of creative rules. The idea extends beyond language and offers insight into the very nature of the human mind. This is a sparkling, eye-opening, and utterly original book by one of the world's leading cognitive scientists.

Author : David Adger
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0198828098
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Language Unlimited written by David Adger and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2019 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Human language allows us to plan, communicate, and create new ideas, without limit. Yet we have only finite experiences, and our languages have finite stores of words. Drawing on research from neuroscience, psychology, and linguistics, David Adger takes us on a journey to the hidden structure behind all we say (or sign) and understand.

Author : Mark C. Baker
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521001106
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lexical Categories written by Mark C. Baker and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-03-13 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Table of contents

Author : Ralph Fasold
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107717663
Total Pages : 481 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Introduction to Language and Linguistics written by Ralph Fasold and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-03-06 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This accessible textbook is the only introduction to linguistics in which each chapter is written by an expert who teaches courses on that topic, ensuring balanced and uniformly excellent coverage of the full range of modern linguistics. Assuming no prior knowledge the text offers a clear introduction to the traditional topics of structural linguistics (theories of sound, form, meaning, and language change), and in addition provides full coverage of contextual linguistics, including separate chapters on discourse, dialect variation, language and culture, and the politics of language. There are also up-to-date separate chapters on language and the brain, computational linguistics, writing, child language acquisition, and second-language learning. The breadth of the textbook makes it ideal for introductory courses on language and linguistics offered by departments of English, sociology, anthropology, and communications, as well as by linguistics departments.

Author : Steven Pinker
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062032526
Total Pages : 578 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Language Instinct written by Steven Pinker and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2010-12-14 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A brilliant, witty, and altogether satisfying book." — New York Times Book Review The classic work on the development of human language by the world’s leading expert on language and the mind In The Language Instinct, the world's expert on language and mind lucidly explains everything you always wanted to know about language: how it works, how children learn it, how it changes, how the brain computes it, and how it evolved. With deft use of examples of humor and wordplay, Steven Pinker weaves our vast knowledge of language into a compelling story: language is a human instinct, wired into our brains by evolution. The Language Instinct received the William James Book Prize from the American Psychological Association and the Public Interest Award from the Linguistics Society of America. This edition includes an update on advances in the science of language since The Language Instinct was first published.

Author : Harry van der Hulst
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108471579
Total Pages : 595 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Mind for Language written by Harry van der Hulst and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-09-30 with total page 595 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illustrated with real-life examples throughout, this book provides a complete introduction to one of the most fundamental question about what it means to be human: how does human language arise in the mind? Theory is explained in an easy-to-understand way, making it accessible for students without a background in linguistics.

Author : Nirmalangshu Mukherji
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350062693
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Human Mind through the Lens of Language written by Nirmalangshu Mukherji and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-06-30 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most living forms in nature display various cognitive abilities in their behaviour. However, except for humans, no other animal builds fires and wheels, navigates with maps and tells stories to other conspecifics. We can witness this unique feature of the human mind in almost everything humans do, such as painting, singing and cooking; there is an underlying sense of unity in the generative part of these systems despite wide differences in what they are about. This book introduces, defends and develops a novel philosophical approach to the study of the generative mind. Nirmalangshu Mukherji argues for a single, species-specific generative principle that accounts for the human ability to combine symbolic forms without bound in each domain that falls under the generative mind.

Author : Liz Swan
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9400754191
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Origins of Mind written by Liz Swan and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-22 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The big question of how and why mindedness evolved necessitates collaborative, multidisciplinary investigation. Biosemiotics provides a new conceptual space that attracts a multitude of thinkers in the biological and cognitive sciences and the humanities who recognize continuity in the biosphere from the simplest to the most complex organisms, and who are united in the project of trying to account for even language and human consciousness in this comprehensive picture of life. The young interdiscipline of biosemiotics has so far by and large focused on codes, signs and sign processes in the microworld—a fact that reflects the field’s strong representation in microbiology and embryology. What philosophers of mind and cognitive scientists can contribute to the growing interdiscipline are insights into how the biosemiotic weltanschauung applies to complex organisms like humans where such signs and sign processes constitute human society and culture.