Language Unlimited

Author : David Adger
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0198828098
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Language Unlimited written by David Adger and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2019 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Human language allows us to plan, communicate, and create new ideas, without limit. Yet we have only finite experiences, and our languages have finite stores of words. Drawing on research from neuroscience, psychology, and linguistics, David Adger takes us on a journey to the hidden structure behind all we say (or sign) and understand.

Author : David Adger
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192563181
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Language Unlimited written by David Adger and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-08-29 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All humans, but no other species, have the capacity to create and understand language. It provides structure to our thoughts, allowing us to plan, communicate, and create new ideas, without limit. Yet we have only finite experiences, and our languages have finite stores of words. Where does our linguistic creativity come from? How does the endless scope of language emerge from our limited selves? Drawing on research from neuroscience, psychology, and linguistics, David Adger takes the reader on a journey to the hidden structure behind all we say (or sign) and understand. Along the way you'll meet children who created language out of almost nothing, and find out how new languages emerge using structures found in languages spoken continents away. David Adger will show you how the more than 7000 languages in the world appear to obey the same deep scientific laws, how to invent a language that breaks these, and how our brains go crazy when we try to learn languages that just aren't possible. You'll discover why rats are better than we are at picking up certain language patterns, why apes are far worse at others, and how artificial intelligences, such as those behind Alexa and Siri, understand language in a very un-human way. Language Unlimited explores the many mysteries about our capacity for language and reveals the source of its endless creativity.

Author : David Adger
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019256319X
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Language Unlimited written by David Adger and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-08-29 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Language Unlimited explores the many mysteries about our capacity for language and reveals the source of its endless creativity. All humans, but no other species, have the capacity to create and understand language. It provides structure to our thoughts, allowing us to plan, communicate, and create new ideas, without limit. Yet we have only finite experiences, and our languages have finite stores of words. Where does our linguistic creativity come from? How does the endless scope of language emerge from our limited selves? Drawing on research from neuroscience, psychology, and linguistics, David Adger takes the reader on a journey to the hidden structure behind all we say (or sign) and understand. Along the way you'll meet children who created language out of almost nothing, and find out how new languages emerge using structures found in languages spoken continents away. David Adger will show you how the more than 7000 languages in the world appear to obey the same deep scientific laws, how to invent a language that breaks these, and how our brains go crazy when we try to learn languages that just aren't possible. You'll discover why rats are better than we are at picking up certain language patterns, why apes are far worse at others, and how artificial intelligences, such as those behind Alexa and Siri, understand language in a very un-human way.

Author : David Levy
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1439865639
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Robots Unlimited written by David Levy and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2005-11-16 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Consider this: Robots will one day be able to write poetry and prose so touching that it will make men weep; compose dozens or even hundreds of symphonies that will rival the work of Mozart; judge a court case with absolute impartiality and fairness; or even converse with the natural ease of your best friend. Robots will one day be so life-like tha

Author : Loompanics Unlimited
Publisher : Breakout Productions Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9781559501422
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Loompanics Unlimited Live! in Las Vegas written by Loompanics Unlimited and published by Breakout Productions Incorporated. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every three years or so, Loompanics Unlimited lights up the desert landscape of American letters by compiling a collection of articles and stories, culled from the catalogs and supplements that we've published during that time. Since we've specialized in providing controversial and unusual works for over twenty years, it should come as no surprise to anyone that many of the selections in this book are both shocking and exhilerating.

Author : Arvind Panagariya
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 9353576679
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book India Unlimited written by Arvind Panagariya and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2020-02-25 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: India used to contribute approximately a quarter of the world's GDP until 1700 CE. As recently as 1820, this share was a hefty 16 per cent. But the Industrial Revolution shifted the centre of gravity of the global economy towards the West. The pernicious, indeed exploitative, policies of the British added to this shift by greatly impoverishing India.India's own policies during the first four decades following Independence denied it a rapid return to prosperity. But now that it has left those policies behind, opened up its economy and created a large GDP base, India can aspire to return to the prominent position it enjoyed in the global economy for so long. In The New India: A Reformer's Guide, one of the country's foremost economists, Arvind Panagariya, sets out a detailed pathway for India to regain its lost glory.

Author : Nikesh Shukla
Publisher : Quartet Books (UK)
ISBN 13 : 9780704372047
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Coconut Unlimited written by Nikesh Shukla and published by Quartet Books (UK). This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shortlisted for the 2010 COSTA first novel award.

Author : David Henry Cruttenden
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 618 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Philosophy of Language; Or, Language as an Exact Science written by David Henry Cruttenden and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : J. Gunnar Olson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789197449502
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Author : N. J. Enfield
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262544865
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Consequences of Language written by N. J. Enfield and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2022-11-22 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is it about humans that makes language possible, and what is it about language that makes us human? If you are reading this, you have done something that only our species has evolved to do. You have acquired a natural language. This book asks, How has this changed us? Where scholars have long wondered what it is about humans that makes language possible, N. J. Enfield and Jack Sidnell ask instead, What is it about humans that is made possible by language? In Consequences of Language their objective is to understand what modern language really is and to identify its logical and conceptual consequences for social life. Central to this undertaking is the concept of intersubjectivity, the open sharing of subjective experience. There is, Enfield and Sidnell contend, a uniquely human form of intersubjectivity, and it is essentially intertwined with language in two ways: a primary form of intersubjectivity was necessary for language to have begun evolving in our species in the first place and then language, through its defining reflexive properties, transformed the nature of our intersubjectivity. In the authors’ analysis, social accountability—the bedrock of society—is grounded in this linguistically transformed, enhanced kind of intersubjectivity. The account of the language-mind-society connection put forward in Consequences of Language is one of unprecedented reach, suggesting new connections across disciplines centrally concerned with language—from anthropology and philosophy to sociology and cognitive science—and among those who would understand the foundational role of language in making us human.