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1	Patterns in the Mind: Language and Human Nature more books like this by Ray Jackendoff add to wishlist What is it about the human mind that accounts for the fact that we can speak and understand a language? Why cant other creatures do the same? And what does this tell us about the rest of human abilities? Recent dramatic discoveries in linguistics and psychology provide intriguing answers to these age-old mysteries. In this fascinating book, Ray ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.54! \| first editions \| SVS
2	Foundations of Language: Brain, Meaning, Grammar, Evolution more books like this by Ray Jackendoff add to wishlist Already hailed as a masterpiece, Foundations of Language offers a brilliant overhaul of the last thirty-five years of research in generative linguistics and related fields. "Few books really deserve the cliche 'this should be read by every researcher in the field'," writes Steven Pinker, author of The Language Instinct, "but Ray Jackendoff's ... see all copies from $9.97! new only from $17.82! \| first editions \| SVS
3	Language, Consciousness, Culture: Essays on Mental Structure more books like this by Ray Jackendoff add to wishlist This work offers an integrative approach to human cognition that encompasses the domains of language, consciousness, action, social cognition, and theory of mind that will foster cross-disciplinary conversation among linguists, philosophers, psycholinguists, neuroscientists, cognitive anthropologists, and evolutionary psychologists. Ray Jackendoff ... see all copies from $14.51! new only from $14.82! \| SVS
4	A Generative Theory of Tonal Music more books like this by Fred Lerdahl add to wishlist This work models music undestanding from the perspective of cognitive science. The point of departure is a search for a grammar of music with the aid of generative linguistics. The theory, which is illustrated with numerous examples from Western classical music, relates the aural surface of a piece to the musical structure unconsciously inferred ... see all copies from $24.00! new only from $30.25! \| SVS
5	Semantic Structures more books like this by Ray Jackendoff add to wishlist "Semantic Structures" is a large-scale study of conceptual structure and its lexical and syntactic expression in English that builds on the theory of conceptual semantics described in Ray Jackendoff's earlier books "Semantics and Cognition" and "Consciousness and the Computational Mind". Jackendoff begins by summarizing the relevant arguments in ... see all copies from $25.00! new only from $27.21! \| first editions \| SVS
6	Language, Logic, and Concepts more books like this by Ray Jackendoff (Editor), Paul Bloom (Editor), Karen Wynn (Editor) add to wishlist A collection of essays inspired by the memory of the cognitive psychologist John Macnamara. Areas covered include the foundations of language and thought, cognitive and linguistic development, and mathematical approaches to cognition. see all copies from $5.05! new only from $6.21! \| first editions
7	Semantics and Cognition more books like this by Ray S Jackendoff add to wishlist This book emphasizes the role of semantics as a bridge between the theory of language and the theories of other cognitive capacities such as visual perception and motor control. see all copies from $7.95! new only from $23.34! \| first editions
8	Simpler Syntax more books like this by Peter W Culicover, Ray Jackendoff add to wishlist This groundbreaking book offers a new and compelling perspective on the structure of human language. The fundamental issue it addresses is the proper balance between syntax and semantics, between structure and derivation, and between rule systems and lexicon. It argues that the balance struck by mainstream generative grammar is wrong. It puts ... see all copies from $24.75! new only from $33.10! \| SVS
9	Consciousness and the computational mind more books like this by Ray S Jackendoff add to wishlist In Consciousness and the Computational Mind, Ray Jackendoff probes one of the fundamental issues in cognitive psychology: How does our conscious experience come to be the way it is? see all copies from $12.00! new only from $33.00!
10	Languages of the Mind: Essays on Mental Representation more books like this by Ray Jackendoff add to wishlist From the 1970s-1990s, Ray Jackendoff has persistently tackled difficult issues in the theory of mind and related theories of cognitive processing. Chief among his contributions is a formal theory that eleborates the nature of language and its relationship to a broad set of other domains. "Languages of the Mind" provides access to Jackendoff's work ... see all copies from $8.40! new only from $16.27! \| first editions
11 view cover	Semantic Interpretation in Generative Grammar more books like this by Ray S Jackendoff add to wishlist A study of the contribution semantics makes to the syntactic patterns of English: an intepretive theory of grammar. see all copies from $4.80! new only from $36.00! \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	The Architecture of the Language Faculty more books like this by Ray Jackendoff add to wishlist Since the 1970s, Ray Jackendoff has investigated many complex issues in syntax, semantics and the relation of language to other cognitive domains. He steps back in this book to survey the broader theoretical landscape in linguistics, in an attempt to identify some of the sources of the widely perceived malaise with respect to much current ... see all copies from $19.88! new only from $19.88! \| SVS
13 view cover	The Revolutions in Europe, 1848-1849: From Reform to Reaction more books like this by Ray John Weston Jackendoff, Robert Evans (Editor), Hartmut Pogge Von Strandmann (Editor) add to wishlist These essays arose out of lectures given in Oxford to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the 1848 revolutions in Europe. Authoritative, yet readable and colourful, they comprise judicious summaries of the existing state of knowledge, as well as new insights and unfamiliar information. The book also seeks to place the revolutionary events in ... see all copies from $48.22! new only from $152.33!
14 view cover	X Syntax: A Study of Phrase Structure more books like this by Ray Jackendoff add to wishlist see all copies from $25.95!
15	Morphological and semantic regularities in the lexicon more books like this by Ray S. Jackendoff add to wishlist see all copies from $23.00!

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