The Syntactic Process
$105.73
- Paperback
344 pages
- Release Date
27 July 2001
Summary
This book covers topics in formal linguistics, intonational phonology, computational linguistics, and experimental psycholinguistics, presenting them as an integrated theory of the language faculty. In this book Mark Steedman argues that the surface syntax of natural languages maps spoken and written forms directly to a compositional semantic representation that includes predicate-argument structure, quantification, and information structure without constructing any intervening structural rep…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262692687 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0262692686 |
| Author: | Mark Steedman |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | Bradford Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 344 |
| Release Date: | 27 July 2001 |
| Weight: | 454g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm x 19mm |
| Series: | Language, Speech, and Communication |
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“Steedman has deftly woven two decades of seminal work on human language understanding into this accessible and engaging volume.” - Bob Carpenter, Lucent Technologies’ Bell Labs
About The Author
Mark Steedman
Mark Steedman is Professor of Cognitive Science in the Division of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh. He is the author of Surface Structure and Interpretation (1996) and The Syntactic Process (2000), both published by the MIT Press.
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