An invitation to cognitive science. Language. Volume 1. / edited by Lila R. Gleitman and Mark Liberman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gleitman, Lila R., editor.

Liberman, Mark, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Language and languages.

Cognition.

Psycholinguistics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxxviii, 445 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : The MIT Press, [1995]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

An Invitation to Cognitive Science provides a point of entry into the vast realm of cognitive science, offering selected examples of issues and theories from many of its subfields. All of the volumes in the second edition contain substantially revised and as well as entirely new chapters.Rather than surveying theories and data in the manner characteristic of many introductory textbooks in the field, An Invitation to Cognitive Science employs a unique case study approach, presenting a focused research topic in some depth and relying on suggested readings to convey the breadth of views and results. Each chapter tells a coherent scientific story, whether developing themes and ideas or describing a particular model and exploring its implications.The volumes are self contained and can be used individually in upper-level undergraduate and graduate courses ranging from introductory psychology, linguistics, cognitive science, and decision sciences, to social psychology, philosophy of mind, rationality, language, and vision science.

Contents:

The Study of Cognition / Daniel N. Osherson

The Cognitive Science of Language: Introduction / Lila R. Gleitman and Mark Liberman

Ch. 1. The Invention of Language by Children: Environmental and Biological Influences on the Acquisition of Language / Lila R. Gleitman and Elissa L. Newport

Ch. 2. The Case of the Missing Copula: The Interpretation of Zeroes in African-American English / William Labov

Ch. 3. The Sound Structure of Mawu Words: A Case Study in the Cognitive Science of Speech / Mark Liberman

C. Ch. 11. Lexical Semantics and Compositionality / Barbara H. Partee

Ch. 12. Semantics / Richard Larson

Ch. 13. Brain Regions of Relevance to Syntactic Processing / Edgar B. Zurif

Ch. 14. Some Philosophy of Language / James Higginbotham.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-262-15044-1

0-262-27391-8

0-585-02777-3

OCLC:

44961419