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Morphological Diversity and Linguistic Cognition

Author : Andrea D. Sims
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108846254
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (88 download)

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Book Synopsis Morphological Diversity and Linguistic Cognition by : Andrea D. Sims

Download or read book Morphological Diversity and Linguistic Cognition written by Andrea D. Sims and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-06-02 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Morphological structures interact dynamically with lexical processing and storage, with the parameters of morphological typology being partly dependent on cognitive pathways for processing, storage and generalization of word structure, and vice versa. Bringing together a team of well-known scholars, this book examines the relationship between linguistic cognition and the morphological diversity found in the world's languages. It includes research from across linguistic and cognitive science sub-disciplines that looks at the nature of typological diversity and its relationship to cognition, touching on concepts such as complexity, interconnectedness within systems, and emergent organization. Chapters employ experimental, computational, corpus-based and theoretical methods to examine specific morphological phenomena, and an overview chapter provides a synthesis of major research trends, contextualizing work from different methodological and philosophical perspectives. Offering a novel perspective on how cognition contributes to our understanding of word structure, it is essential reading for psycholinguists, theoreticians, typologists, computational modelers and cognitive scientists.

Morphological Diversity and Linguistic Cognition

Author : Andrea D. Sims
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108479898
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Language Diversity and Cognitive Representations

Author : Catherine Fuchs
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027223556
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Book Synopsis Language Diversity and Cognitive Representations by : Catherine Fuchs

Download or read book Language Diversity and Cognitive Representations written by Catherine Fuchs and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1999 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Significant new developments in brain activity research have revived the debate on the universality of language and its neural basis. Within this debate, the question of language diversity and its implications for cognition remains central and controversial. It is here investigated in an original multimodal approach, covering various aspects of cross-linguistic variation, differences between spoken, signed and drum languages, between normal speech and pathological speech, and also between language and music, as revealed in electric brain activity associated with language processing. The various contributions (linguistic, anthropological, psychological and neurophysical) on the nature and status of variation and invariants in language provides evidence for complex interactions between language-specific processes and general cognitive faculties. This overview of some recent trends in cognitive linguistics opens up a promising new research area in the humanities as well as in the cognitive sciences.

Space and Time in Languages and Cultures

Author : Luna Filipovi?
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027223904
Total Pages : 509 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Book Synopsis Space and Time in Languages and Cultures by : Luna Filipovi?

Download or read book Space and Time in Languages and Cultures written by Luna Filipovi? and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2012 with total page 509 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers novel insights into linguistic diversity in the domains of spatial and temporal reference, searching for uniformity amongst diversity. A number of authors discuss expression of dynamic spatial relations cross-linguistically in a vast range of typologically different languages such as Bezhta, French, Hinuq, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Serbian, and Spanish, among others. The contributions on linguistic expression of time all shed new light on pertinent questions regarding this cognitive domain, such as the hotly debated relationship between cross-linguistic differences in talking about time and universal principles of utterance interpretation, modelling temporal inference through aspectual interactions, as well as the complexity of the acquisition of tense-aspect relations in a second language. The topic of space and time in language and culture is also represented, from a different point of view, in the sister volume Space and Time in Languages and Cultures: Language, Culture, and Cognition (HCP 37) which discusses spatial and temporal constructs in human language, cognition, and culture in order to come closer to a better understanding of the interaction between shared and individual characteristics of language and culture that shape the way people interact with each other and exchange information about the spatio-temporal constructs that underlie their cognitive, social, and linguistic foundations.

Morphological Aspects of Language Processing

Author : Laurie Beth Feldman
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 1134778333
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (347 download)

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Download or read book Morphological Aspects of Language Processing written by Laurie Beth Feldman and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2013-05-13 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is now well established that phonological -- and orthographic -- codes play a crucial role in the recognition of isolated words and in understanding the sequences of words that comprise a sentence. However, words and sentences are organized with respect to morphological as well as phonological components. It is thus unfortunate that the morpheme has received relatively little attention in the experimental literature, either from psychologists or linguists. Due to recent methodological developments, however, now is an opportune time to address morphological issues. In the experimental literature, there is a tendency to examine various psycholinguistic processes in English and then to assume that the account given applies with equal significance to English and to other languages. Written languages differ, however, in the extent to which they capture phonological as contrasted with morphological units. Moreover, with respect to the morpheme, languages differ in the principle by which morphemes are connected to form new words. This volume focuses on morphological processes in word recognition and reading with an eye toward comparing morphological processes with orthographic and phonological processes. Cross-language comparisons are examined as a tool with which to probe universal linguistic processes, and a variety of research methodologies are described. Because it makes the experimental literature in languages other than English more accessible, this book is expected to be of interest to many readers. It also directs attention to the subject of language processing in general -- an issue which is of central interest to cognitive psychologists and linguists as well as educators and clinicians.

Linguistic Morphology in the Mind and Brain

Author : Davide Crepaldi
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000807150
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (8 download)

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Book Synopsis Linguistic Morphology in the Mind and Brain by : Davide Crepaldi

Download or read book Linguistic Morphology in the Mind and Brain written by Davide Crepaldi and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-02-27 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Linguistic Morphology is a unique collection of cutting-edge research in the psycholinguistics of morphology, offering a comprehensive overview of this interdisciplinary field. This book brings together world-leading experts from linguisics, experimental psychology and cognitive neuroscience to examine morphology research from different disciplines. It provides an overview of how the brain deals with complex words; examining how they are easier to read, how they affect our brain dynamics and eye movements, how they mould the acquisition of language and literacy, and how they inform computational models of the linguistic brain. Chapters discuss topics ranging from subconscious visual identification to the high-level processing of sentences, how children make their first steps with complex words through to how proficient adults make lexical identification in less than 40 milliseconds. As a state-of-the-art resource in morphology research, this book will be highly relevant reading for students and researchers of linguistics, psychology and cognitive neuroscience. It will also act as a one-stop shop for experts in the field.

The Adaptive Value of Languages: Non-Linguistic Causes of Language Diversity

Author : Antonio Benítez-Burraco
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
ISBN 13 : 2889456315
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (894 download)

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Book Synopsis The Adaptive Value of Languages: Non-Linguistic Causes of Language Diversity by : Antonio Benítez-Burraco

Download or read book The Adaptive Value of Languages: Non-Linguistic Causes of Language Diversity written by Antonio Benítez-Burraco and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2018-11-08 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The goal of this eBook is to shed light on the non-linguistic causes of language diversity, and in particular, to explore the possibility that some aspects of the structure of languages may result from an adaptation to the natural and/or human-made environment. Traditionally, language diversity has been claimed to result from random, internally-motivated changes in language structure. However, ongoing research suggests instead that different factors that are external to language can promote language change and ultimately account for aspects of language diversity, specifically features of the social and physical environments. The contributions in this eBook discuss whether some aspects of languages are an adaptation to ecological, social, or even technological niches.

Space in Language and Cognition

Author : Stephen C. Levinson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521011969
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (119 download)

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Download or read book Space in Language and Cognition written by Stephen C. Levinson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-03-20 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Table of contents

Current Issues in Morphological Processing

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 415 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (66 download)

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Download or read book Current Issues in Morphological Processing written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Morphologically complex words in the mind/brain

Author : Alina Leminen
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
ISBN 13 : 2889198030
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (891 download)

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Book Synopsis Morphologically complex words in the mind/brain by : Alina Leminen

Download or read book Morphologically complex words in the mind/brain written by Alina Leminen and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2016-04-07 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The question of how morphologically complex words (assign-ment, listen-ed) are represented and processed in the brain has been one of the most hotly debated topics in the cognitive neuroscience of language. Do complex words engage cortical representations and processes equivalent to single lexical objects or are they processed as sequences of separate morpheme-like units? Research on morphological processing has suggested that adults make efficient use of both lexical (i.e., whole word) storage and retrieval, as well as combinatorial computation in processing morphologically complex words. Psycholinguistic studies have demonstrated that processing of complex words can be affected both by properties of the morphemes and the whole words, such as their frequency, transparency, and regularity. Furthermore, this research has been informative about the time-course of complex word recognition and production, and the role of morphological structure in these processes. At the neural level, left-hemisphere inferior frontal and superior temporal areas, and negative-going event-related potentials, have been consistently associated with morphological processing. While most previous research has been done on the recognition of morphologically complex words in adult native speakers, much less is known about neurocognitive processes involved in the on-line production of morphologically complex words, and even less on morphological processing in children and non-native speakers. Moreover, we have limited understanding of how linguistically distinct morphological processes, e.g. inflectional (listen-ed) versus derivational (assign-ment), are handled by the cortical language networks. This e-book provides an up-to-date overview of the questions currently addressed in the field of morphological processing. It highlights the significance of morphological information in language processing, both written and spoken, as assessed by a variety of methods and approaches. It also provides a comprehensive range of research and development tools for the development of new technologies.

Cross-linguistic Perspectives on Morphological Processing

Author : Ram Frost
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781841699066
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (99 download)

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Download or read book Cross-linguistic Perspectives on Morphological Processing written by Ram Frost and published by . This book was released on 2000-01 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This special issue provides a unique analysis of critical issues in morphological processing by examining these in a variety of languages and by using different methodologies. The issue is based on the theoretical stance that the mapping of cognitive events involved in processing morphologically complex words, should depend on the linguistic environment of the native speaker. Studies in different languages are aimed at producing converging or contrasting evidence that would allow the formulation of a general theory of morphological processing, a theory that takes into account the specific characteristics of the orthography, phonology, and morphology of each language, and shows how these constrain possible architectures and algorithms for lexical processing. Nine experimental papers are included in this book. They bring evidence from Dutch, French, Finnish, German, Hebrew, and English. This collection of papers presents a significant variety of experimental methods such as conscious priming at various SOA's, masked priming, the monitoring of simple lexical decision, speech production in picture naming, eye movement tracking, measuring parafoveal preview benefits, and computer simulations in artificial languages. All papers suggest that lying at the intersection of orthographic, phonologic, and semantic coding, morphological structure must play a key role in the representation and processing of lexical organization. Language and Cognitive Processes is an international journal which published theoreticl and experimental research into the mental processess and representations involved in language use. The psychological study of language has attracted increasing interest over the past three decades, and Language and Cognitive Processes provides a common focus for this enterprise. It is a journal which emphasises the importance of an interdisciplinary approach to the study of language. Apart from research in experimental and developmental psychology, Language and Cognitive Processes publishes work derived from linguistics, philosophy, cognitive neuropsychology and computational modelling

Current Issues in Morphological Processing

Author : Ram Frost
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (314 download)

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Download or read book Current Issues in Morphological Processing written by Ram Frost and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Word Morphology and Written Language Acquisition: Insights from Typical and Atypical Development in Different Orthographies

Author : Lynne G. Duncan
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
ISBN 13 : 2889458326
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (894 download)

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Book Synopsis Word Morphology and Written Language Acquisition: Insights from Typical and Atypical Development in Different Orthographies by : Lynne G. Duncan

Download or read book Word Morphology and Written Language Acquisition: Insights from Typical and Atypical Development in Different Orthographies written by Lynne G. Duncan and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2019-06-05 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Research Topic explores the processing of morphemes, the smallest units of language that bear meaning and that combine to form more complex words. The articles gathered under this Research Topic investigate typical and atypical morphological processing by children and adolescents in ten different languages. These articles provide cross-linguistic and cross-script evidence of the early sensitivity of children to the morphemic structure of words, irrespective of whether they are struggling readers or typically developing. All in all, the collection allows for a better understanding of how morphological processing skills develop, providing valuable clues as to how this competence can be used as a tool to improve literacy acquisition in struggling readers.

Adaptive Languages

Author : Christian Bentz
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110557770
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (15 download)

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Book Synopsis Adaptive Languages by : Christian Bentz

Download or read book Adaptive Languages written by Christian Bentz and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2018-06-11 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Languages carry information. To fulfil this purpose, they employ a multitude of coding strategies. This book explores a core property of linguistic coding – called lexical diversity. Parallel text corpora of overall more than 1800 texts written in more than 1200 languages are the basis for computational analyses. Different measures of lexical diversity are discussed and tested, and Shannon’s measure of uncertainty – the entropy – is chosen to assess differences in the distributions of words. To further explain this variation, a range of descriptive, explanatory, and grouping factors are considered in a series of statistical models. The first category includes writing systems, word-formation patterns, registers and styles. The second category includes population size, non-native speaker proportions and language status. Grouping factors further elicit whether the results extrapolate across – or are limited to – specific language families and areas. This account marries information-theoretic methods with a complex systems framework, illustrating how languages adapt to the varying needs of their users. It sheds light on the puzzling diversity of human languages in a quantitative, data driven and reproducible manner.

Language Acquisition in Diverse Linguistic, Social and Cognitive Circumstances

Author : Maria Garraffa
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
ISBN 13 : 2889456897
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (894 download)

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Book Synopsis Language Acquisition in Diverse Linguistic, Social and Cognitive Circumstances by : Maria Garraffa

Download or read book Language Acquisition in Diverse Linguistic, Social and Cognitive Circumstances written by Maria Garraffa and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2019-01-24 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The language experience of children developing in linguistically diverse environments is subject to considerable variation both in terms of quantity and quality of language exposure. It is an open question how to investigate language exposure patterns and more important which factors are relevant for successful language learning. For example, children acquiring a minority language, including a signed language, are exposed to less variety of input than children acquiring a more global language. This is because they are living in a smaller linguistic community and with fewer occasions to use the language in everyday life. Despite this reduced input, most native signers are successful language learners. In contrast native language competence is not always achieved in signing deaf children with hearing parents or those with cochlear implants learning a spoken language. A similar outcome but with very different reasons has also been reported for hearing children with language impairment. In these populations acquisition of morphosyntactic aspects is developing atypically ending with an uncomplete linguistic repertoire. The circumstances of exposure during language development tend to differ in significant ways with respect to a large number of factors, such as, (i) length, quality and quantity of input, (ii) social status and attitudes toward the language, (iii) cognitive abilities required for language learning, and (iv) age of first exposure. Having early exposure to a range of different speakers is important in the acquisition of any language and may affect language proficiency. However, negative societal attitudes or a cognitive based disadvantage may create an unfavourable learning environment that prevents language learning from surfacing typically. This situation inevitably generates a different type of exposure for the child and consequently different language competence. In this Research Topic we intend to encourage the debate on social, linguistic and cognitive factors at play for designing an effective environment for language acquisition aiming at integrating linguistic variables coming from theoretical studies on language with environmental variables, such as, measures of language input or cognitive abilities on functions ancillary to language development.

Empirical Approaches to Cognitive Linguistics

Author : Milla Luodonpää-Manni
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 144389222X
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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Book Synopsis Empirical Approaches to Cognitive Linguistics by : Milla Luodonpää-Manni

Download or read book Empirical Approaches to Cognitive Linguistics written by Milla Luodonpää-Manni and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2017-05-11 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection takes a cognitive linguistic view on analyzing language and presents innovative contemporary Finnish research to the international audience. The volume brings together nine chapters presenting empirical case studies that rely on various kinds of corpus data and experimental data or combine both types of empirical evidence. The topics vary from semantics to grammatical description, from terminological choices to language acquisition, and they study language from perspectives as diverse as psycholinguistics, comparative linguistics, and translation studies. A multi-methodological approach to linguistic research is promoted in this book. The idea is that language in all its diversity can best be studied by using the entire spectrum of modern quantitative and qualitative methods. It will appeal to academic readers, students, and established researchers, interested in the study of authentic linguistic material especially from the cognitive perspective.

Language, Cognition, and the Brain

Author : Karen Emmorey
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 1135664803
Total Pages : 688 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (356 download)

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Download or read book Language, Cognition, and the Brain written by Karen Emmorey and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2001-11-01 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once signed languages are recognized as natural human languages, a world of exploration opens up. Signed languages provide a powerful tool for investigating the nature of human language and language processing, the relation between cognition and language, and the neural organization of language. The value of sign languages lies in their modality. Specifically, for perception, signed languages depend upon high-level vision and motion processing systems, and for production, they require the integration of motor systems involving the hands and face. These facts raise many questions: What impact does this different biological base have for grammatical systems? For online language processing? For the acquisition of language? How does it affect nonlinguistic cognitive structures and processing? Are the same neural systems involved? These are some of the questions that this book aims at addressing. The answers provide insight into what constrains grammatical form, language processing, linguistic working memory, and hemispheric specialization for language. The study of signed languages allows researchers to address questions about the nature of linguistic and cognitive systems that otherwise could not be easily addressed.