One: Nuts and Bolts.- 1. Mental Representation.- Symbolism: The
Classical Paradigm.- Cracks in the Symbolic Paradigm.-
Connectionism: The Other Paradigm.- Methods of Models.- Assessing
Theories of Mental Representation.- 2. Partitioned
Representations.- General Overview.- The Contents of Spaces.-
Parochial Reasoning.- Primary Contexts.- Partitioned Semantics.-
Coherence.- Consolidation.- Secondary Contexts.- A Typology of
Spaces.- Where Partitioned Representations Get Their Power.-
Summary and Conclusions.- 3. Language: Process and Structure.- A
Simple Philosophy of Language.- Linguistic Explanation.- The
Process of Language Understanding.- Linguistic Evidence for Mental
Representations.- 4. Three Levels of Language Processing.-
Parochial Processing.- Distribution.- Contextualization.- An
Example Discourse.- Conclusions.- Two: Studies in Language.- 5.
Pedro's Donkey and Oedipus's Mother.- Some Common Parochial
Linguistic Processes.- Some Common Cases of Distribution.-
Interaction of Distribution and Parochial Processes.- Summary and
Conclusions.- 6. Satisfying Presuppositions in Discourse.- The
Problem of Presupposition.- Presupposition and Parochial
Processing.- What Happens in Complex Sentences?.- Conclusions.- 7.
Space Frogs and Henry Ford.- Linguistic Evidence for
Contextualization.- The Semantic Contributions of Space Cues.-
Summary.- 8. Temporal Aspect.- Reference Time: Temporal
Perspective.- Semantics and Construction.- Reference Time:
Contextualization.- The Case of the Present Perfect.- Conclusion.-
9. General Conclusions.- An Assessment of Partitioned
Representations.- Prospectus.- The Importance of Partitioned
Representations.- Appendices: Formal Models.- 10. A Logic of
Partitioned Representations.- The Syntax of PR.- Rules of Inference
for PR.- The Semantics of PR.- Soundness.- Conclusions.- 11.
Generalized Natural Deduction.- Generalized Natural Deduction.-
Time and Action.- Frames.- Summary and Conclusions.- 12. A
Computational Model.- The Design of Spaceprobe.- Customizing
Digestion.- Restructuring Rules for Distribution.- Handling
Queries.- Language Understanding in Spaceprobe.- Summary.-
References.- Author Index.
General
| Imprint: |
Kluwer Academic Publishers
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Series: |
Studies in Cognitive Systems, v. 8 |
| Release date: |
July 1991 |
| First published: |
July 1991 |
| Authors: |
John Dinsmore
|
| Dimensions: |
240mm (L) |
| Format: |
Hardcover
|
| Pages: |
352 |
| Edition: |
illustrated edition |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-7923-1348-9 |
| Categories: |
Books >
Social sciences >
Psychology >
Cognition & cognitive psychology >
General
|
| LSN: |
0-7923-1348-8 |
| Barcode: |
9780792313489 |
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