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The Acquisition of Syntactic Knowledge

By: Robert C. Berwick

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The Acquisition of Syntactic Knowledge

By: Robert C. Berwick

The computer model. Computation and language acquisition. The acquisition model. Learning phrase structure. Learning transformations. A theory of acquisition. Acquisition complexity. Learning theory: applications. Locality principles and acquisition.

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Why Only Us

Language and Evolution

By: Robert C. Berwick,Noam Chomsky

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Language and Evolution

By: Robert C. Berwick,Noam Chomsky

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.

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The Acquisition of Syntactic Knowledge

By: Robert C. Berwick

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Melbourne 2030

Planning Rhetoric Versus Urban Reality

By: Bob Birrell,Virginia Rapson,Ernest Healy,Kevin O'Connor

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Melbourne 2030

Planning Rhetoric Versus Urban Reality

By: Bob Birrell,Virginia Rapson,Ernest Healy,Kevin O'Connor

The 'Melbourne 2030' plan is the Victorian Government's blueprint for the accommodation of an additional one million people in Melbourne by the year 2030. The plan seeks to change the shape of Melbourne radically. The vision is of a compact city in which growth will be concentrated in existing commercial centres (activity centres). Notwithstanding this fundamental departure from the low density pattern of the past, it is claimed that Melbourne's famed 'liveability' will be preserved. This book explores: the intellectual origins of the plan; demographic assumptions behind the plan; the mode of implementation; the likely impact on the built environment; environmental and social consequences; heritage outcomes; and alternative planning options. It also critically examines assumptions about the projected demand for higher density housing, and argues that the plan's 'compact city' vision is unlikely to be achieved because it fails to come to grips with the economic and demographic realities facing Melbourne.

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Monash University ePress

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0975747509

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The Poet and the Gilded Age

Social Themes in Late Nineteenth-Century American Verse

By: Robert Harris Walker

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The Poet and the Gilded Age

Social Themes in Late Nineteenth-Century American Verse

By: Robert Harris Walker

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.

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1512819182

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Merge and the Strong Minimalist Thesis

By: Noam Chomsky,T. Daniel Seely,Robert C. Berwick,Sandiway Fong,M. A. C. Huybregts,Hisatsugu Kitahara,Andrew McInnerney,Yushi Sugimoto

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Merge and the Strong Minimalist Thesis

By: Noam Chomsky,T. Daniel Seely,Robert C. Berwick,Sandiway Fong,M. A. C. Huybregts,Hisatsugu Kitahara,Andrew McInnerney,Yushi Sugimoto

The goal of this contribution to the Elements series is to closely examine Merge, its form, its function, and its central role in current linguistic theory. It explores what it does (and does not do), why it has the form it has, and its development over time. The basic idea behind Merge is quite simple. However, Merge interacts, in intricate ways, with other components including the language's interfaces, laws of nature, and certain language-specific conditions. Because of this, and because of its fundamental place in the human faculty of language, this Element's focus on Merge provides insights into the goals and development of generative grammar more generally, and its prospects for the future.

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Why Only Us

Language and Evolution

By: Robert C. Berwick,Noam Chomsky

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Computational Complexity and Natural Language

By: G. Edward Barton,Robert C. Berwick,Eric Sven Ristad

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Computational Complexity and Natural Language

By: G. Edward Barton,Robert C. Berwick,Eric Sven Ristad

A nontechnical introduction to complexity theory: its strengths, its weaknesses, and how it can be used to study grammars.

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Bradford Books

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0262524058

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The Grammatical Basis of Linguistic Performance

Language Use and Acquisition

By: Robert C. Berwick,Amy S. Weinberg

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The Grammatical Basis of Linguistic Performance

Language Use and Acquisition

By: Robert C. Berwick,Amy S. Weinberg

Written primarily from the perspective of computational theory, Grammatical Basis of Linguistic Performance presents a synthesis of some major recent developments in grammatical theory and its application to models of language performance. Its main thesis is that Chomsky's government-binding theory is a good foundation for models of both machine parsing and language learnability. Both authors are at MIT. Robert C. Berwick is Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and Amy Weinberg is in the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy. Their book is eleventh in the series Current Studies in Linguistics.

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MIT Press (MA)

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0262021927

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