

From Current Studies in Linguistics
Semantics and Cognition
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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.
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Out of Print ISBN: 9780262100274 283 pp. | 6 in x 9 inPaperback
$35.00 X ISBN: 9780262600132 283 pp. | 6 in x 9 inEndorsements
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All students of language and cognition will want to read Ray Jackendoff's exciting new book. Almost for the first time, we have a work that suggests plausible bridges between theories of lexical semantics and theories of perceptual and cognitive processes, presented in a way specific enough to do us good.
Lila Gleitman
University of Pennsylvania
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Jackendoff's book is an important contribution to cognitive science. It is full of fascinating, even beautiful, hypotheses and results. The book provides systematic empirical evidence and a theoretical analysis concerning the nature of cognition. The results of this book provide major hope that there may yet be a calculus of thought.
Kenneth Wexler
University of California