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Linguistics

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Linguistics is the study of human language and its structure, meaning and context. In linguistics, structure means grammar, the collection of rules that govern the composition of words, phrases, sentences and sounds. Meaning refers to the interpretation of language and expression. Context refers to the origins, history and evolution of language, as well as its social implications and neurological processing. There are at least 5000 languages currently being spoken globally, and linguists have found that there are more similarities than differences among these languages. It has been proposed that all languages share universal principles, called Universal Grammar.

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  1. (from the preface) This book is organized in the following way. Part I opens with an introductory chapter, Chapter One, in which background assumptions are briefly sketched. In Chapter Two of Part I our major conclusions with respect to phonological…
  2. Many of the problems associated with the planning and execution of human arm trajectories are illuminated by planning and control strategies which have been developed for robotic manipulators. This comparison may provide explanations for the…
  3. In this article we show how Optimality Theory yields a highly general Constraint Demotion principle for grammar learning. The resulting learning procedure specifically exploits the grammatical structure of Optimality Theory, independent of the…
  4. Prior to the twentieth century, theories of knowledge were inherently perceptual. Since then, developments in logic, statistics, and programming languages have inspired amodal theories that rest on principles fundamentally different from those…
  5. Fragmentary utterances such as short answers and subsentential XPs without linguistic antecedents are proposed to have fully sentential syntactic structures, subject to ellipsis. Ellipsis in these cases is preceded by A-movement of the fragment to a…

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  1. Leland McCleary
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    Departamento de Letras Modernas, Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas, Universidade de São Paulo