| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 204 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction -- 2. Parallel Distributed Processing Model of Language: Phonologic, Semantic, and Semantic-Phonologic (Lexical) Processing -- Concept Representations -- Acoustic-Articulatory Motor Pattern Associator Network -- Lexicons -- Representation of Knowledge in Auto-Associator and Pattern Associator Networks: Attractor Basins, Attractor Trenches, and Quasi-Regular Domains -- Semantic-Phonologic (Lexical) and Phonologic Impairment in Aphasias -- Phonologic Paraphasic Errors -- Factors Influencing Phonologic and Lexical Errors in Internally Generated Aphasic Language -- 3. Grammar: The Model -- Semantic Contributions to Syntax -- Adjectives -- Verbs -- Semantic Instantiation of Verbs -- Verb Thematic, Implementational, and Flavor Representations -- Frontal -- Postcentral: Verb Flavor -- Relations between Nouns and Verbs -- Abstract Nouns and Verbs -- Lexical Instantiation of Verbs: The Relationship between Modified Concept Representations and Morphologic and Phonologic Sequence Representations -- Prepositions -- Locative -- Obligatory -- Personal Pronouns -- Sequence: The Basis of Syntax -- Phrase Structure Rules, Grammatic Morphology, and the Competition Model -- Phrase Structure Rules -- Grammatic Morphology -- Competition Model -- Syntax: Sequence at the Sentence Level -- Recursion -- Grammar: A Synthesis -- 4. Disorders of Grammar in Aphasia -- Grammaticality Judgment and the Issue of Loss of Knowledge versus Loss of Access to Knowledge -- Syntax -- Deficits in Verb Production in Broca's Aphasia -- Potential Mechanisms -- Semantic-Conceptual -- Lexical -- Grammatic -- Distributed Representations of Verb Semantics -- Thematic and Flavor (Manner-Path) Representations of Verbs -- Concreteness Effects -- "Heavy" versus "Light" Verbs -- Unaccusative and Unergative Verbs -- Psychological Verbs -- Verb Naming Errors as a Reflection of the Nature of Neural Networks Supporting Verb Meaning -- Verb Representations: A Summary -- Syntax: Phrase Structure Rules -- Grammatic Morphology -- Cross-Linguistic Aphasia Studies -- Support for the Competition Model -- Sparing of Grammatic Morphology in Production of Richly Inflected Languages: Implications for Neuroanatomy of Grammar -- Support for the Competition Model from Studies of Language Comprehension -- Hierarchy of Morphologic Sequence Knowledge -- Grammatic Morphology -- Special Cases -- Personal Pronouns -- Auxiliary Verbs -- Locative Prepositions -- Obligatory Prepositions -- Verb Past Tense Formation -- Single-Route Connectionist Model -- Hybrid Associative Symbolic Model -- Performance by Normal Subjects -- Discrepant Results -- Other Forms -- Tense versus Agreement -- Present Tense versus Past Tense -- Competition Model and a Return to Syntax -- Disorders of Comprehension -- 5. Conclusion -- Future Research Directions |
| Summary |
"A comprehensive, neurally based theory of language function that draws on principles of neuroanatomy, cognitive psychology, cognitive neuropsychology, psycholinguistics, and parallel distributed processing."--Provided by publisher |
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LINGUISTICS & LANGUAGE/General |
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NEUROSCIENCE/General |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Neurolinguistics.
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Language and languages -- Grammars.
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Neurolinguistic Programming
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SCIENCE -- Cognitive Science.
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Language and languages -- Grammars
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Neurolinguistics
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2011028979 |
| ISBN |
9780262301619 |
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026230161X |
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1283448963 |
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9781283448963 |
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0262300869 |
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9780262300865 |
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9786613448965 |
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6613448966 |
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