This wide-ranging collection of essays is inspired by the memory of the cognitive psychologist John Macnamara, whose influential contributions to language and concept acquisition have provided the basis for numerous research programs. The areas covered by the essays include the foundations of language and thought, congnitive and linguistic development, and mathematical approaches to cognition.
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Ray Jackendoff is Professor in the Program in Linguistics and Cognitive Science at Brandeis University.
Karen Wynn is Associate Professor of Psychology at Yale University.
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characteristic nondefining features, count noun description, irregular subclasses, addressee patterns, learning personal pronouns, sortal dog, nominal theory, proper name interpretation, irregularly shaped entity, familial language impairment, family resemblance categories, pronominal errors, more specific sortals, animate surrogate, secondborn children, spatiotemporal evidence, addressee condition, overheard speech, indexical view, sedimented concepts, novel label, family resemblance structure, perceptual criterion, nonessential properties, general sortal Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Oxford University Press, John Macnamara, Cambridge University Press, The Chimney Sweeper, Harvard University Press, Journal of Child Language, Bill Clinton, Ray Jackendoff, United States, University of Chicago Press, Academic Press, Clarendon Press, Journal of Neurolinguistics, Mac Lane, Paul Bloom, John Benjamins, Linguistic Inquiry, Northern Ireland, Old English, The Crane Bag, Working Papers, Developmental Psychology, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Kegan Paul New!
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John Macnamara's writings on the psychology of language are internationally recognized. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
characteristic nondefining features, count noun description, irregular subclasses, addressee patterns, learning personal pronouns, sortal dog, nominal theory, proper name interpretation, irregularly shaped entity, familial language impairment, family resemblance categories, pronominal errors, more specific sortals, animate surrogate, secondborn children, spatiotemporal evidence, addressee condition, overheard speech, indexical view, sedimented concepts, novel label, family resemblance structure, perceptual criterion, nonessential properties, general sortal Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Oxford University Press, John Macnamara, Cambridge University Press, The Chimney Sweeper, Harvard University Press, Journal of Child Language, Bill Clinton, Ray Jackendoff, United States, University of Chicago Press, Academic Press, Clarendon Press, Journal of Neurolinguistics, Mac Lane, Paul Bloom, John Benjamins, Linguistic Inquiry, Northern Ireland, Old English, The Crane Bag, Working Papers, Developmental Psychology, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Kegan Paul New!
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- On Interpretation by Aristotle on 6 pages
- Child Development by Heather Brennand on 4 pages
- On The Soul by Aristotle on page 183, page 196, and page 210
- Cognitive Psychology by Douglas Medin PhD on page 145, page 259, and page 407
- Discourse on Thinking (Torchbooks) by Martin Heidegger on page 170, and page 205
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- Handbook of Philosophical Logic, Second Edition Volume 10 by Dov M. Gabbay in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Wandering Significance: An Essay on Conceptual Behaviour by Mark Wilson on page 377
- Foundations of Language: Brain, Meaning, Grammar, Evolution by Ray Jackendoff in Back Matter
- Confusion: A Study in the Theory of Knowledge by Joseph L. Camp Jr. in Back Matter
- Descartes' Baby: How The Science Of Child Development Explains What Makes Us Human by Paul Bloom in Front Matter
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