Movement, Economy, Orientation: Twentieth-Century Shifts in North American Language

Movement, Economy, Orientation: Twentieth-Century Shifts in North American Language

This peer-reviewed edited volume, published by the American Dialect Society, draws together eight articles that use empirical linguistic data to highlight how recent language developments in American English are driven […]


The Phonetics and Phonology of Contrast

The Phonetics and Phonology of Contrast

The Case of the Romanian Vowel System This book proposes that phonological contrast, in particular the robustness of a phonemic contrast, does not depend solely on the presence of minimal […]


Automaton Theories of Human Sentence Comprehension (Studies in Computational Linguistics)

Automaton Theories of Human Sentence Comprehension (Studies in Computational Linguistics)

By relating grammar to cognitive architecture, John T. Hale shows step-by-step how incremental parsing works in models of perceptual processing and how specific learning rules might lead to frequency-sensitive preferences. […]


Developmental Dysgraphia

Developmental Dysgraphia

This volume brings together, for the first time, theoretically grounded and methodologically rigorous research on developmental dysgraphia, presented alongside reviews of the typical development of spelling and writing skills.


Optimality-theoretic syntax, semantics, and pragmatics: From uni- to bidirectional optimization

Optimality-theoretic syntax, semantics, and pragmatics: From uni- to bidirectional optimization

This book co-authored by G. Legendre. M. Putnam, H. de Swart, and E. Zaroukian investigates the morphosyntactic, semantic, and pragmatic properties of language, and the interactions between them, from the perspective of Optimality Theory.


Scene Vision: Making Sense of What We See

Scene Vision: Making Sense of What We See

For many years, researchers have studied visual recognition with objects — single, clean, clear, and isolated objects, presented to subjects at the center of the screen. In our real environment, however, objects do not appear so neatly. Our visual world is a stimulating scenery mess; fragments, colors, occlusions, motions, eye movements, context, and distraction all affect perception. In this volume, pioneering researchers address the visual cognition of scenes from neuroimaging, psychology, modeling, electrophysiology, and computer vision perspectives.


Understanding Cognitive Development: Approaches from Mind and Brain

Understanding Cognitive Development: Approaches from Mind and Brain

The papers in this volume examine the state of the art in key areas of developmental cognitive neuroscience, focusing on theoretically driven research on cognition and its development. The past […]


Spatial Representation: From Gene to Mind

Spatial Representation: From Gene to Mind

In this book, the authors present evidence that this domain-specific specialization in cognitive function emerges early in development and is reflected in patterns of breakdown that occur under genetic defect. […]


Case Series in Cognitive Neuropsychology (Special Issue of Cognitive Neuropsychology)

Case Series in Cognitive Neuropsychology (Special Issue of Cognitive Neuropsychology)

Schwartz and Dell (2010) advocated for a major role for case series investigations in cognitive neuropsychology. They defined the key features of this approach and presented a number of arguments […]


Optimality-Theoretic Syntax: Language, Speech and Communication

Optimality-Theoretic Syntax: Language, Speech and Communication

Recent work in theoretical syntax has revealed the strong explanatory power of the notions of economy, competition, and optimization. Building grammars entirely upon these elements, Optimality Theory syntax provides a theory of […]