Publication standards

Publication standards
Author: United States. Naval Facilities Engineering Command
Publisher:
Total Pages: 100
Release: 1987
Genre: Government publications
ISBN:

Preference, Belief, and Similarity

Preference, Belief, and Similarity
Author: Amos Tversky
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 1046
Release: 2003-11-21
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 9780262700931

Amos Tversky (1937–1996), a towering figure in cognitive and mathematical psychology, devoted his professional life to the study of similarity, judgment, and decision making. He had a unique ability to master the technicalities of normative ideals and then to intuit and demonstrate experimentally their systematic violation due to the vagaries and consequences of human information processing. He created new areas of study and helped transform disciplines as varied as economics, law, medicine, political science, philosophy, and statistics. This book collects forty of Tversky's articles, selected by him in collaboration with the editor during the last months of Tversky's life. It is divided into three sections: Similarity, Judgment, and Preferences. The Preferences section is subdivided into Probabilistic Models of Choice, Choice under Risk and Uncertainty, and Contingent Preferences. Included are several articles written with his frequent collaborator, Nobel Prize-winning economist Daniel Kahneman.

A Lateral Theory of Phonology

A Lateral Theory of Phonology
Author: Tobias Scheer
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Total Pages: 926
Release: 2004
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9783110178715

The architecture of the human language faculty has been one of the main foci of the linguistic research of the last half century. This branch of linguistics, broadly known as Generative Grammar, is concerned with the formulation of explanatory formal accounts of linguistic phenomena with the ulterior goal of gaining insight into the properties of the 'language organ'. The series comprises high quality monographs and collected volumes that address such issues. The topics in this series range from phonology to semantics, from syntax to information structure, from mathematical linguistics to studies of the lexicon.

Phonological Theory

Phonological Theory
Author: John A. Goldsmith
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 451
Release: 1999-11-08
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0631204695

This volume provides the most comprehensive and authoritative collection of the key readings in phonological theory. It is designed to complement the outstanding Handbook of Phonological Theory, this volume is ideal as a primary text for course use. It also represents an unparalleled work of reference for anyone interested in recent developments in linguistic theory.

Direct Interface and One-Channel Translation

Direct Interface and One-Channel Translation
Author: Tobias Scheer
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Total Pages: 413
Release: 2012-03-30
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 161451111X

Following up on the Guide to Morphosyntax-Phonology Interface Theories (2011), written from a theory-neutral point of view, this book lays out the author’s approach to the representational side of the interface. The book is thus about how information is transmitted to phonology when an object is inserted into phonological representations (as opposed to the derivational means, i.e. phase theory today). The idea of Direct Interface is that diacritics such as hash-marks in SPE or prosodic constituency since the early 80s, which mediate between morpho-syntax and phonology, are illegal in a modular environment where computational systems can only process domain-specific vocabulary. Direct Interface instead holds that only truly phonological vocabulary can carry morpho-syntactic information. It is shown that of all representational objects only syllabic space qualifies. Couched in CVCV (or strict CV), i.e. Government Phonology, this insight is then applied in detailed case studies of Belarusian, Corsican, Greek and the exhaustive lexical inventory of sonorant-obstruent-initial words in 13 Slavic languages,. In this sense, the book is the 2nd volume of A Lateral Theory of Phonology (2004).

An Introduction to Forensic Linguistics

An Introduction to Forensic Linguistics
Author: Malcolm Coulthard
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 250
Release: 2007-11-28
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1134361521

Overview of the interface of language and the law, illustrated with authentic data and contemporary case studies. Topics include collection of evidence, discourse, courtroom interaction, legal language, comprehension and forensic phonetics.