Language, Speech, and Communication
This series included monographs and edited collections on language, speech, and communication. It is no longer active.
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Statistical Methods for Speech Recognition
ISBN: 9780262546607
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: November 1, 2022
This book reflects decades of important research on the mathematical foundations of speech recognition. It focuses on underlying statistical techniques such as hidden Markov models, decision trees,...
Children with Specific Language Impairment
ISBN: 9780262535403
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: October 13, 2017
The landmark reference in the field, completely updated: a comprehensive treatment of a disorder that is more prevalent than autism.
Presumptive Meanings
The Theory of Generalized Conversational Implicature
ISBN: 9780262621304
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: April 24, 2000
This is the first extended discussion of preferred interpretation in language understanding, integrating much of the best research in linguistic pragmatics from the last two decades.
Type-Logical Semantics
ISBN: 9780262531498
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: July 24, 1998
Based on an introductory course on natural-language semantics, this book provides an introduction to type-logical grammar and the range of linguistic phenomena that can be handled in categorial grammar....
Toward a Cognitive Semantics
Typology and Process in Concept Structuring
ISBN: 9780262700979
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: January 24, 2003
In this two-volume set, Talmy approaches the question of how language organizes conceptual material both at a general level and by analyzing a crucial set of particular conceptual domains: space and time, motion and location, causation and force interaction, and attention and viewpoint.
Lexical Competence
ISBN: 9780262517164
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: January 1, 2003
What does our ability to use words—that is, our lexical competence—consist of? What is the difference between a system that can be said to understand language and one that cannot? Most approaches...
Children with Specific Language Impairment
ISBN: 9780262621366
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: January 27, 2000
Children with Specific Language Impairment covers all aspects of SLI, including its history, possible genetic and neurobiological origins, and clinical and educational practice.
The Balancing Act
Combining Symbolic and Statistical Approaches to Language
ISBN: 9780262611220
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: December 19, 1996
Symbolic and statistical approaches to language have historically been at odds—the former viewed as difficult to test and therefore perhaps impossible to define, and the latter as descriptive but...
The Discovery of Spoken Language
ISBN: 9780262600361
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: July 24, 2000
Speech carries information about the structure and organization of language. Yet, speech is normally produced as a continuous stream without clearly demarcated boundaries between words. A fundamental...
Statistical Methods for Speech Recognition
ISBN: 9780262546607
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: November 1, 2022
This book reflects decades of important research on the mathematical foundations of speech recognition. It focuses on underlying statistical techniques such as hidden Markov models, decision trees,...
Children with Specific Language Impairment
ISBN: 9780262535403
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: October 13, 2017
The landmark reference in the field, completely updated: a comprehensive treatment of a disorder that is more prevalent than autism.
Presumptive Meanings
The Theory of Generalized Conversational Implicature
ISBN: 9780262621304
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: April 24, 2000
This is the first extended discussion of preferred interpretation in language understanding, integrating much of the best research in linguistic pragmatics from the last two decades.
Type-Logical Semantics
ISBN: 9780262531498
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: July 24, 1998
Based on an introductory course on natural-language semantics, this book provides an introduction to type-logical grammar and the range of linguistic phenomena that can be handled in categorial grammar....
Toward a Cognitive Semantics
Typology and Process in Concept Structuring
ISBN: 9780262700979
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: January 24, 2003
In this two-volume set, Talmy approaches the question of how language organizes conceptual material both at a general level and by analyzing a crucial set of particular conceptual domains: space and time, motion and location, causation and force interaction, and attention and viewpoint.
Lexical Competence
ISBN: 9780262517164
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: January 1, 2003
What does our ability to use words—that is, our lexical competence—consist of? What is the difference between a system that can be said to understand language and one that cannot? Most approaches...
Children with Specific Language Impairment
ISBN: 9780262621366
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: January 27, 2000
Children with Specific Language Impairment covers all aspects of SLI, including its history, possible genetic and neurobiological origins, and clinical and educational practice.
The Balancing Act
Combining Symbolic and Statistical Approaches to Language
ISBN: 9780262611220
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: December 19, 1996
Symbolic and statistical approaches to language have historically been at odds—the former viewed as difficult to test and therefore perhaps impossible to define, and the latter as descriptive but...
The Discovery of Spoken Language
ISBN: 9780262600361
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: July 24, 2000
Speech carries information about the structure and organization of language. Yet, speech is normally produced as a continuous stream without clearly demarcated boundaries between words. A fundamental...