Chomsky's Universal Grammar
Title | Chomsky's Universal Grammar PDF eBook |
Author | Vivian Cook |
Publisher | John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | 338 |
Release | 2014-03 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9788126517473 |
This new edition introduces the reader to Noam Chomsky's theory of language by setting the specifics of syntactic analysis in the framework of his general ideas. It explains its fundamental concepts and provides an overview and history of the theory.
Chomsky's Universal Grammar
Title | Chomsky's Universal Grammar PDF eBook |
Author | Vivian J. Cook |
Publisher | Wiley-Blackwell |
Total Pages | 336 |
Release | 2007-05-07 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 1405111879 |
The 3rd edition of Chomsky’s Universal Grammar introduces the reader to Noam Chomsky’s theory of language by setting the specifics of syntactic analysis in the framework of his general ideas. Updated and revised to include a broader range of issues and discussion topics Traces the development of Chomsky's thinking and of the Minimalist Program since 1995, providing a new picture of this current model of syntactic theory Introduces both the general concepts of the theory of Universal Grammar and the main areas of syntax such as X-bar theory, movement and government/binding theory Includes discussion topics, exercises, and suggestions for further readings in each chapter
The Language Instinct
Title | The Language Instinct PDF eBook |
Author | Steven Pinker |
Publisher | Harper Collins |
Total Pages | 578 |
Release | 2010-12-14 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 0062032526 |
"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.
Second Language Acquisition and Universal Grammar
Title | Second Language Acquisition and Universal Grammar PDF eBook |
Author | Lydia White |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 338 |
Release | 2003-03-06 |
Genre | Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | 9780521796477 |
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Syntactic Structures
Title | Syntactic Structures PDF eBook |
Author | Noam Chomsky |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | 120 |
Release | 2020-05-18 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 3112316002 |
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Why Only Us
Title | Why Only Us PDF eBook |
Author | Robert C. Berwick |
Publisher | MIT Press |
Total Pages | 229 |
Release | 2017-05-12 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 0262533499 |
Berwick and Chomsky draw on recent developments in linguistic theory to offer an evolutionary account of language and humans' remarkable, species-specific ability to acquire it. “A loosely connected collection of four essays that will fascinate anyone interested in the extraordinary phenomenon of language.” —New York Review of Books We are born crying, but those cries signal the first stirring of language. Within a year or so, infants master the sound system of their language; a few years after that, they are engaging in conversations. This remarkable, species-specific ability to acquire any human language—“the language faculty”—raises important biological questions about language, including how it has evolved. This book by two distinguished scholars—a computer scientist and a linguist—addresses the enduring question of the evolution of language. Robert Berwick and Noam Chomsky explain that until recently the evolutionary question could not be properly posed, because we did not have a clear idea of how to define “language” and therefore what it was that had evolved. But since the Minimalist Program, developed by Chomsky and others, we know the key ingredients of language and can put together an account of the evolution of human language and what distinguishes us from all other animals. Berwick and Chomsky discuss the biolinguistic perspective on language, which views language as a particular object of the biological world; the computational efficiency of language as a system of thought and understanding; the tension between Darwin's idea of gradual change and our contemporary understanding about evolutionary change and language; and evidence from nonhuman animals, in particular vocal learning in songbirds.
Chomsky's Universal Grammar
Title | Chomsky's Universal Grammar PDF eBook |
Author | Vivian J Cook |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 201 |
Release | 1988 |
Genre | Government-binding theory (Linguistics) |
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