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Rich Languages From Poor Inputs (Hardcover): Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini, Robert C. Berwick Rich Languages From Poor Inputs (Hardcover)
Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini, Robert C. Berwick
R3,630 R2,918 Discovery Miles 29 180 Save R712 (20%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book addresses one of the most famous and controversial arguments in the study of language and mind, the Poverty of the Stimulus. Presented by Chomsky in 1968, the argument holds that children do not receive enough evidence to infer the existence of core aspects of language, such as the dependence of linguistic rules on hierarchical phrase structure. The argument strikes against empiricist accounts of language acquisition and supports the conclusion that knowledge of some aspects of grammar must be innate. In the first part of Rich Grammars from Poor Inputs, contributors consider the general issues around the POS argument, review the empirical data, and offer new and plausible explanations. This is followed by a discussion of the the processes of language acquisition, and observed 'gaps' between adult and child grammar, concentrating on the late spontaneous acquisition by children of some key syntactic principles, basically, though not exclusively, between the ages of 5 to 9. Part 3 widens the horizon beyond language acquisition in the narrow sense, examining the natural development of reading and writing and of the child's growing sensitivity for the fine arts.

Rich Languages From Poor Inputs (Paperback): Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini, Robert C. Berwick Rich Languages From Poor Inputs (Paperback)
Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini, Robert C. Berwick
R1,165 Discovery Miles 11 650 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book addresses one of the most famous and controversial arguments in the study of language and mind, the Poverty of the Stimulus. Presented by Chomsky in 1968, the argument holds that children do not receive enough evidence to infer the existence of core aspects of language, such as the dependence of linguistic rules on hierarchical phrase structure. The argument strikes against empiricist accounts of language acquisition and supports the conclusion that knowledge of some aspects of grammar must be innate. In the first part of Rich Languages from Poor Inputs, contributors consider the general issues around the Poverty of the Stimulus argument, review the empirical data, and offer new and plausible explanations. This is followed by a discussion of the processes of language acquisition, and observed 'gaps' between adult and child grammar, concentrating on the late spontaneous acqquisition by children of some key syntactic principles, mainly, though not exclusively, between the ages of 5 and 9. The last part of the book widens the horizon beyond language acquisition in the narrow sense, examining the natural development of reading and writing and of the child's growing sensitivity for the fine arts.

Minimalist Parsing (Hardcover): Robert C. Berwick, Edward P. Stabler Minimalist Parsing (Hardcover)
Robert C. Berwick, Edward P. Stabler
R2,767 Discovery Miles 27 670 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book is the first dedicated to linguistic parsing - the processing of natural language according to the rules of a formal grammar - in the Minimalist Program. While Minimalism has been at the forefront of generative grammar for several decades, it often remains inaccessible to computer scientists and others in adjacent fields. This volume makes connections with standard computational architectures, provides efficient implementations of some fundamental minimalist accounts of syntax, explores implementations of recent theoretical proposals, and explores correlations between posited structures and measures of neural activity during human language comprehension. These studies will appeal to graduate students and researchers in formal syntax, computational linguistics, psycholinguistics, and computer science.

Why Only Us - Language and Evolution (Paperback): Robert C. Berwick, Noam Chomsky Why Only Us - Language and Evolution (Paperback)
Robert C. Berwick, Noam Chomsky
R442 R418 Discovery Miles 4 180 Save R24 (5%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

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.

AI in the 1980s and Beyond - An MIT Survey (Paperback, New Ed): W.Eric L. Grimson, Ramesh S. Patil AI in the 1980s and Beyond - An MIT Survey (Paperback, New Ed)
W.Eric L. Grimson, Ramesh S. Patil; Contributions by Charles Rich, Richard Waters, Victor Zue, …
R1,382 Discovery Miles 13 820 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This collection of essays by 12 members of the MIT staff, provides an inside report on the scope and expectations of current research in one of the world's major AI centers. The chapters on artificial intelligence, expert systems, vision, robotics, and natural language provide both a broad overview of current areas of activity and an assessment of the field at a time of great public interest and rapid technological progress. Contents Artificial Intelligence, Patrick H. Winston and Karen Prendergast * KnowledgeBased Systems, Randall Davis * Expert-System Tools and Techniques, Peter Szolovits * Medical Diagnosis: Evolution of Systems Building Expertise, Ramesh S. Patil * Artificial Intelligence and Software Engineering, Charles Rich and Richard C. Waters * Intelligent Natural Language Processing, Robert C. Berwick * Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding, Victor Zue * Robot Programming and Artificial Intelligence, Tomas Lozano-Perez * Robot Hands and Tactile Sensing, John M. Hollerbach * Intelligent Vision, Michael Brady * Making Robots See, W. Eric L. Grimson * Autonomous Mobile Robots, Rodney A. Brooks AI in the 1980s and Beyond is included in the Artificial Intelligence Series, edited by Patrick H. Winston and Michael Brady.

Minimalist Parsing (Paperback): Robert C. Berwick, Edward P. Stabler Minimalist Parsing (Paperback)
Robert C. Berwick, Edward P. Stabler
R1,282 Discovery Miles 12 820 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book is the first dedicated to linguistic parsing - the processing of natural language according to the rules of a formal grammar - in the Minimalist Program. While Minimalism has been at the forefront of generative grammar for several decades, it often remains inaccessible to computer scientists and others in adjacent fields. This volume makes connections with standard computational architectures, provides efficient implementations of some fundamental minimalist accounts of syntax, explores implementations of recent theoretical proposals, and explores correlations between posited structures and measures of neural activity during human language comprehension. These studies will appeal to graduate students and researchers in formal syntax, computational linguistics, psycholinguistics, and computer science.

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