Emergence of Meaning

Informationen zum Autor Stephen Crain is a Distinguished Professor at Macquarie University and a fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia. He is also Director of the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Cognition and its Disorders. Klappentext An investigation into the underlying logic of human languages which looks at how children acquire English and Mandarin. Zusammenfassung Using the examples of English and Mandarin Chinese! Crain demonstrates that the underlying expressions and structures in these typologically different languages directly correlate to those of classical logic. Moreover Crain presents experimental data which shows the emergence of these concepts in the languages spoken by young children. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Logic and human languages; 2. Competing approaches to language and logic; 3. The case for logical nativism; 4. Scope parameters; 5. How something can be both positive and negative; 6. Two logical operators for the price of one.

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• Authors: Stephen Crain, Stephen (Macquarie University Crain
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.08.2012
• EAN: 9780521674881
• ISBN: 978-0-521-67488-1
• No. of pages: 201
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Linguistics; Cambridge Studies in Linguistics; Cambridge Studies in Linguisti
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures