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From Utterances to Speech Acts

By Mikhail Kissine

"Kissine offers a new theory of speech acts which is philosophically sophisticated and builds on work in cognitive science, formal semantics, and linguistic typology. This highly readable, brilliant essay is a major contribution to the field."

--François Recanati, Institut Jean-Nicod


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Title: Early Language Development
Subtitle: Bridging brain and behaviour
Edited By: Angela D. Friederici
Guillaume Thierry
URL: http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookid=TiLAR%205
Series Title: Trends in Language Acquisition Research 5
Description:

This book establishes a dialog between experimental psychology and electrophysiology in the study of infant language development. On the one hand, traditional methods of investigation into language development have reached a high level of refinement despite being confined to observing infants’ overt behavioral responses. On the other hand, more recent methods such as neuroimaging and, in particular, event-related potentials provide access to implicit responses from the infant brain while often relying on rather gross experimental contrasts. The aims of this book are both to provide neuroscientists with an overview of the ingenious behavioral paradigms that have been developed in the field of language development and to introduce the power of neurophysiological indices to behavioral experimentalists. The two approaches are compared at various levels of processing: phonetic discrimination, categorical perception, speech segmentation, syllable and word recognition, semantic priming. A general discussion brings together the two approaches, highlights their respective contributions and limitations and proposes constructive ideas for future integration.

Publication Year: 2008
Publisher: John Benjamins
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Linguistic Field(s): Phonetics
Phonology
Psycholinguistics
Neurolinguistics
Language Acquisition

Versions:
Format: Hardback
ISBN: 9027234752
ISBN-13: 9789027234759
Prices: Europe EURO 85.00
U.S. $ 115.00