Preface to the series
Acknowledgements
Perspectives on language and cognition: From empiricism
to rationalism and back again
Dominiek Sandra
1. Language and cognition: Defining aspects of human nature
2. Language without mind: Structuralism and behaviorism
3. Language and mind: The mentalist era
4. Language and cognition: A twin pair
5. The contents of this volume
Artificial intelligence
Steven Gillis, Walter Daelemans ~ Koenraad DeSmedt
1. Introduction
2. A brief historical note
3. The physical symbol system hypothesis
4. Paradigms for the representation of knowledge
4.1 State-space search
4.2 Logic-based formalisms
4.3 Semantic network formalisms and frames
4.4 Rule-based formalisms
5. Linguistic symbol manipulation in semantics and pragmatics
5.1 Semantics
5.2 Knowledge and intentions
5.3 Utterances in context
5.4 Modeling the user
5.4.1 User modeling and dialog systems
5.4.2 Dimensions of user models
5.4.3 Construction of a user model
5.4.4 Instantiating the user model: Collecting evidence in dialog
5.5 Generating discourse
6. Epilogue
Categorization
Eleanor Rosch
1. The classical view of categorization
2. Challenges and alternatives to the classical view
2.1 Graded structure and prototypes
2.2 Non-arbitrariness and coherence of categories
3. Modeling problems and critiques of graded structure
3.1 Mathematical models
3.2 Critiques of graded structure
4. Categories as theories
5. Conclusion
Cerebral division of labour in verbal communication
Michel Paradis
1. Introduction
2. Dyshyponoia
3. Right-hemisphere involvement
4. Implicit pragmatic competence and metapragmatic knowledge
5. Inference
6. The legitimacy of sentence grammars
7. Semantics and pragmatics in the interpretation of an utterance
8. Language vs. verbal communication: What's in a name?
9. Conclusion
Cognitive grammar
Ronald W. Langacker
1. Introduction
2. Organization
3. Conceptualist semantics
4. Grammar as symbolization
Cognitive science
Seana Coulson & Teenie Matlock
1. Definition
2. History of contributing fields
2.1 Philosophy
2.2 Artificial intelligence
2.3 Psychology
2.4 Linguistics
2.5 Neuroscience
2.6 Current directions
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Comprehension vs.production
Connectionism
Consciousness and language
Developmnetal Psychology
Experimentation
Language acquisition
Metalinguistic awareness
Perception and Language
Psycholinguistics
The multilingual lexicon
Index
