"Learning a language involves so much more than just rote memorization of rules. Basics of Language for Language Learners, 2nd edition, by Peter W. Culicover and Elizabeth V. Hume, systematically explores all the aspects of language central to second language learning: the sounds of language, the different grammatical structures, the social functions of communication, and the psychology of language learning and use.Unlike books specific ..."
"By focusing their inquiry on formal language learnability theory-the interface of formal mathematical linguistics, linguistic theory and cognitive psychology-the authors of this book have developed a rigorous and unified theory that opens ..."
Explaining Syntax(1st Edition) Representations, Structures, and Computation by PeterW. Culicover Hardcover, 384 Pages, Published 2013 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-966023-0, ISBN: 0-19-966023-9
"In this book, Peter Culicover introduces the analysis of natural language within the broader question of how language works - of how people use languages to configure words and morphemes in order to express meanings. He focuses both on the syntactic and morphosyntactic devices that languages use, and on the conceptual structures that correspond to particular aspects of linguistic form. He seeks to explain linguistic forms and in the pro ..."
"Dynamical Grammar explores the consequences for language acquisition, language evolution, and linguistic theory of taking the underlying architecture of the language faculty to be that of a complex adaptive dynamical system. It contains the first results of a new and complex model of language acquisition which the authors have developed to measure how far language input is reflected in language output and thereby get a better idea of ju ..."
Syntactic Nuts(1st Edition) Hard Cases, Syntactic Theory, and Language Acquisition (Foundations of Grammar) by Peter William Culicover Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 1999 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-870023-4, ISBN: 0-19-870023-7
"This book investigates the architecture of the language faculty by considering what the properties of language reveal about the mental abilities and processes involved in language acquisition. The language faculty, the author argues, must be able not only to accommodate what is general, exceptionless, and universal in language, but must also be capable of dealing with what is irregular, exceptional, and idiosyncratic. In Syntactic Nuts ..."
Principles and Parameters(1st Edition) An Introduction to Syntactic Theory (Oxford Textbooks in Linguistics) by Peter William Culicover Paperback, 464 Pages, Published 1997 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-870014-2, ISBN: 0-19-870014-8
"Principle and Parameters is a new textbook intended for the advanced undergraduate or postgraduate student of linguistics. In this readable and authoritative survey of the theory, incorporating much of Government and Binding (GB) theory, Peter Culicover summarizes the major proposals and results of Case theory, Theta theory, X'-theory, Binding theory, the theory of A- and A'- movement, locality conditions, and the theory of Logical Form ..."
Grammar and Complexity(1st Edition) Language at the Intersection of Competence and Performance (Oxford Linguistics) by PeterW. Culicover Hardcover, 312 Pages, Published 2013 by Oxford University Press, Usa ISBN-13: 978-0-19-965459-8, ISBN: 0-19-965459-X
"This book combines ideas about the architecture of grammar and language acquisition, processing, and change to explain why languages show regular patterns when there is so much irregularity in their use and so much complexity when there is such regularity in linguistic phenomena. Peter Culicover argues that the structure of language can be understood and explained in terms of two kinds of complexity: firstly that of the correspondence b ..."
"... Rui P. Chaves , Anne Abeillé , Bruno Estigarribia , Dan Flickinger , Paul Kay , Laura A. Michaelis , Stefan Müller , Geoffrey K. Pullum , Frank Van Eynde et al . 2020 . Lessons from the English auxiliary system . Journal of Linguistics ..."
Natural Language Syntax(1st Edition) (Oxford Textbooks in Linguistics) by PeterW. Culicover Paperback, 352 Pages, Published 2009 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-923018-1, ISBN: 0-19-923018-8
"Neural Connections, Mental Computation addresses the key questions of whether connectionist models are computationally sufficient to account for complex cognitive functions and whether connectionism can account for such functions in a neurobiologically realistic way. Lynn Nadel is Professor of Psychology and Research Cognitive Scientist at the University of Arizona. Lynn Cooper is Professor of Psychology at Columbia University. Peter C ..."
Grammar and Complexity(1st Edition) Language at the Intersection of Competence and Performance by PeterW. Culicover Paperback, 352 Pages, Published 2013 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-965460-4, ISBN: 0-19-965460-3