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Language, Evolution, and the Brain
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出版日期
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2009
閱讀格式
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PDF
ISBN
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9789629371654
- Foreword
- List of Contributors
- List of Illustrations
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1. The Evolution of Language: Hints from Creoles and Pidgins/Salikoko S. MUFWENE
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1. Introduction
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2. The Normal Evolution of Creoles and Pidgins
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3. Hints from Creoles about the Evolution of Language
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4. Conclusion
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2. Sounds Like Teen Spirit: Computational Insights into the Grounding of Everyday Musical Terms/Jean-Julien AUCOUTURIER
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1. The Many Words of Music
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2. Methods
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3. Musical Terms Are Motivated Rather Than Predicted
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4. Grounding through Inter-symbolic Associations
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5. The Bootstrap Model
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6. Predications
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7. Conclusion
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Appendix A: Description of the computer measure of acoustic similarity
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3. Grammaticalization and Cognitive Constraints on Grammar/Masayoshi SHIBATANI
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1. Introduction
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2. Grammaticalization of Motion Verbs in the Spatial Domain
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3. Grammaticalization of Motion Verbs in the Temporal Domain
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4. Cognitive Constraints on Grammar
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5. Summary
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4. Evolution of the Global Organization of the Lexicon/Mieko OGURA
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1. Introduction
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2. Small-World Networks of Nouns and Verbs in WordNet and TOE
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3. The Effects of Word Frequency
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4. An Evolutionary Perspective
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5. Conclusion
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5. Evolution of Basic Color Terms/Mike DOWMAN
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1. Introduction
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2. Color Terms across Languages
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3. Psycholinguistic and Neurophysiological Findings
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4. Evolutionary Modeling
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5. The Evolutionary Model
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6. Evolutionary Simulations
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7. Conclusion
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6. Complex Systems Approach to the Emergence of Language/Andrea BARONCHELLI,Ciro CATTUTO,Vittorio LORETO,Andrea PUGLISI
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1. Introduction
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2. The Naming Game
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3. The Category Game
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4. Collaborative Tagging
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5. Conclusion
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7. Modeling Language Competition across Communities/James W. MINETT
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1. Introduction
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2. The Language Competition Model
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3. Simulations of Language Competition across Communities
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4. Conclusion
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8. Brain Evolution Relevant to Language/P. Thomas SCHOENEMANN
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1. Introduction
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2. Functional Neuroanatomy of Language
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3. Comparative Evolutionary Assessments of the Human Brain
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4. Conclusion
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9. Mirror Neurons: Extraordinary or Ordinary?/Erhan OZTOP
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1. Introduction
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2. A Parsimonious Memory System
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3. Auto-associative Memory Hypothesis of Mirror Neurons
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4. Hebbian Plasticity and Mirror Neurons
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5. Could Mirror Neurons be Initially Developed for Motor Control?
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6. Conclusion
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10. The Role of Uncertainty in Communication: Analysis of Atypical Grammatical Usage and Simulating Game Players/Ryoko UNO,Takashi IKEGAMI
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1. Introduction
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2. A Linguistic Analysis of Japanese Causals
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3. Simulation of Uncertain Situations
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4. Conclusion
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11. Lateralized Whorf: Language Influences Perceptual Decisions in the Right Visual Field/Paul KAY,Terry REGIER,Aubrey L. GILBERT,Richard B. IVRY
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1. Introduction
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2. Initial Experiments
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3. Further Replication
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4. Generalizing beyond Color
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5. Experiments with Patients Whose Corpus Callosum has been Surgically Severed
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6. Languages Other Than English
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7. Aphasia and Lateralized Whorf Effects
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8. Relation of Evidence of LVF CP to Lateralized Whorf Hypothesis
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9. Summary So Far
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10. Infant and Toddler Color CP
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11. Discussion and Conclusion
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- Index
- 出版地 : 香港
- 語言 : 英文
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