Using sentence comprehension as a case study for all of cognitive science, David Townsend and Thomas Bever offer an integration of two major approaches, the symbolic-computational and the associative-
In this two-volume set Leonard Talmy defines the field of cognitive semantics. He approaches the question of how language organizes conceptual material both at a general level and by analyzing a cruci
When we speak, we mean more than we say. In this book Stephen C. Levinson explains some general processes that underlie presumptions in communication. This is the first extended discussion of preferre
The landmark reference in the field, completely updated: a comprehensive treatment of a disorder that is more prevalent than autism.Children with specific language impairment (SLI) show a significant
A new, deductive approach to the syntax-semantics interface integrates two mature and successful lines of research: logical deduction for semantic composition and the Lexical Functional Grammar (LFG)
In this two-volume set, Talmy approaches the question of how language organizes conceptual material both at a general level and by analyzing a crucial set of particular conceptual domains: space and t
In this two-volume set Leonard Talmy defines the field of cognitive semantics. He approaches the question of how language organizes conceptual material both at a general level and by analyzing a cruci
The authors of The Origins of Grammar have pioneered one of themost important methodological advances in language learning in the past decade: the intermodalpreferential looking paradigm, which can b
Children with specific language impairment (SLI) show a significant deficit in spokenlanguage that cannot be attributed to neurological damage, hearing impairment, or intellectualdisability. More prev
Recent research on the syntax of signed languages has revealed that, apart from somemodality-specific differences, signed languages are organized according to the same underlyingprinciples as spoken l
