Language as a Cognitive Process: Syntax
Author: Terry Winograd
Publisher:
Published: 1983
Total Pages: 664
ISBN-13:
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The Grammar Network
Author: Holger Diessel
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2019-08-15
Total Pages: 309
ISBN-13: 1108498817
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProvides a dynamic network model of grammar that explains how linguistic structure is shaped by language use.
Cognitive Processes in Language
Author: Krzysztof Kosecki
Publisher: Lodz Studies in Language
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9783631618400
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book contains discussions of a broad range of issues of the relation between language and cognition, inspired mainly by recent developments in Cognitive Linguistics. The individual texts discuss, from various perspectives, conceptual strategies, verbal memory, syntax, semantics, linguistic segmentation, non-verbal communication, linguistic categorization, language learning, speech disorders, as well as applications of Cognitive Linguistics to the study of literature. The volume is a fresh contribution to the growing body of research in Cognitive Linguistics and the study of various cognitive processes in language.
The Syntactic Process
Author: Mark Steedman
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2001-07-27
Total Pages: 348
ISBN-13: 9780262692687
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book covers topics in formal linguistics, intonational phonology, computational linguistics, and experimental psycholinguistics, presenting them as an integrated theory of the language faculty. In this book Mark Steedman argues that the surface syntax of natural languages maps spoken and written forms directly to a compositional semantic representation that includes predicate-argument structure, quantification, and information structure without constructing any intervening structural representation. His purpose is to construct a principled theory of natural grammar that is directly compatible with both explanatory linguistic accounts of a number of problematic syntactic phenomena and a straightforward computational account of the way sentences are mapped onto representations of meaning. The radical nature of Steedman's proposal stems from his claim that much of the apparent complexity of syntax, prosody, and processing follows from the lexical specification of the grammar and from the involvement of a small number of universal rule-types for combining predicates and arguments. These syntactic operations are related to the combinators of Combinatory Logic, engendering a much freer definition of derivational constituency than is traditionally assumed. This property allows Combinatory Categorial Grammar to capture elegantly the structure and interpretation of coordination and intonation contour in English as well as some well-known interactions between word order, coordination, and relativization across a number of other languages. It also allows more direct compatibility with incremental semantic interpretation during parsing. The book covers topics in formal linguistics, intonational phonology, computational linguistics, and experimental psycholinguistics, presenting them as an integrated theory of the language faculty in a form accessible to readers from any of those fields.
New Directions in Cognitive Linguistics
Author: Vyvyan Evans
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Published: 2009-06-24
Total Pages: 534
ISBN-13: 9027289441
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNearly three decades since the publication of the seminal Metaphors We Live By, Cognitive Linguistics is now a mature theoretical and empirical enterprise, with a voluminous associated literature. It is arguably the most rapidly expanding ‘school’ in modern linguistics, and one of the most exciting areas of research within the interdisciplinary project known as cognitive science. As such, Cognitive Linguistics is increasingly attracting a broad readership both within linguistics as well as from neighbouring disciplines including other cognitive and social sciences, and from disciplines within the humanities. This volume contains over 20 papers by leading experts in cognitive linguistics which survey the state of the art and new directions in cognitive linguistics. The volume is divided into 5 sections covering all the traditional areas of study in cognitive linguistics, as well as newer areas, including applications and extensions. Sections include: Approaches to semantics; Approaches to metaphor and blending; Approaches to grammar; Language, embodiment and cognition; Extensions and applications of cognitive linguistics.
Computational Cognitive Modeling and Linguistic Theory
Author: Adrian Brasoveanu
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2020-01-01
Total Pages: 299
ISBN-13: 303031846X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis open access book introduces a general framework that allows natural language researchers to enhance existing competence theories with fully specified performance and processing components. Gradually developing increasingly complex and cognitively realistic competence-performance models, it provides running code for these models and shows how to fit them to real-time experimental data. This computational cognitive modeling approach opens up exciting new directions for research in formal semantics, and linguistics more generally, and offers new ways of (re)connecting semantics and the broader field of cognitive science. The approach of this book is novel in more ways than one. Assuming the mental architecture and procedural modalities of Anderson's ACT-R framework, it presents fine-grained computational models of human language processing tasks which make detailed quantitative predictions that can be checked against the results of self-paced reading and other psycho-linguistic experiments. All models are presented as computer programs that readers can run on their own computer and on inputs of their choice, thereby learning to design, program and run their own models. But even for readers who won't do all that, the book will show how such detailed, quantitatively predicting modeling of linguistic processes is possible. A methodological breakthrough and a must for anyone concerned about the future of linguistics! (Hans Kamp) This book constitutes a major step forward in linguistics and psycholinguistics. It constitutes a unique synthesis of several different research traditions: computational models of psycholinguistic processes, and formal models of semantics and discourse processing. The work also introduces a sophisticated python-based software environment for modeling linguistic processes. This book has the potential to revolutionize not only formal models of linguistics, but also models of language processing more generally. (Shravan Vasishth) .
Event Representation in Language and Cognition
Author: Jürgen Bohnemeyer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2010-12-23
Total Pages: 297
ISBN-13: 1139493671
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEvent Representation in Language and Cognition examines new research into how the mind deals with the experience of events. Empirical research into the cognitive processes involved when people view events and talk about them is still a young field. The chapters by leading experts draw on data from the description of events in spoken and signed languages, first and second language acquisition, co-speech gesture and eye movements during language production, and from non-linguistic categorization and other tasks. The book highlights newly found evidence for how perception, thought, and language constrain each other in the experience of events. It will be of particular interest to linguists, psychologists, and philosophers, as well as to anyone interested in the representation and processing of events.
Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing
Author: Matthew W. Crocker
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 377
ISBN-13: 0521631211
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book brings together linguistic, psychological and computational perspectives on cognitive mechanisms in sentence processing.
Language Down the Garden Path
Author: Montserrat Sanz
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2013-08-29
Total Pages: 518
ISBN-13: 0199677131
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"The workshop that originated this book was entitled "Understanding language : forty years down the garden path". It took place in July 2010." --Acknowledgements p. [xii].
Grammar and Cognition
Author: Alexander Haselow
Publisher:
Published: 2020
Total Pages: 358
ISBN-13: 9789027207722
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe brain and the mind behind grammar : dualistic approaches in grammar research and (neuro)cognitive studies of language / Alexander Haselow and Gunther Kaltenböck -- Familiar phrases in language competence : linguistic, psychological, and neurological observations support a dual process model of language / Diana Van Lancker Sidtis -- Dual process frameworks on reasoning and linguistic discourse : a comparison / Bernd Heine, Tania Kuteva and Haiping Long -- Language activity in the light of cerebral hemisphere differences : towards a pragma-syntactic account of human grammar / Alexander Guryev and François Delafontaine -- Dual processing in a functional-cognitive theory of grammar and its neurocognitive basis / Kasper Boye and Peter Harder -- Dichotomous or continuous? : final particles and a dualistic conception of grammar / Katsunobu Izutsu and Mitsuko Narita Izutsu -- The semantics, syntax and prosody of adverbs in English : an FDG perspective / Evelien Keizer -- Formulaic language and discourse grammar : evidence from speech disorder / Gunther Kaltenböck -- Local and global structures in discourse and interaction : linguistic and psycholinguistic aspects / Alexander Haselow -- Agreement groups and dualistic syntactic processing / László Drienkó.
