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Lectures on language performance / Charles E. Osgood.

By: Material type: TextSeries: Springer series in language and communication ; v. 7Publication details: New York : Springer-Verlag, c1980.Description: xi, 276 p. : ill. ; 24 cmSubject(s): DDC classification:
  • 401/.9 OSG
LOC classification:
  • P37 .O74
Contents:
Lecture I What Is a Language?.- Orientation.- Defining Characteristics of Language Generally.- Defining Characteristics of Human Languages.- Nondefining Characteristics of Human Languages.- How May Human Languages Have Originated?.- Lecture II Things and Words.- Orientation.- A Capsule Life-History of Behaviorism.- The Componential Nature of Representational Mediators.- The Intimate Parallelism of Nonlinguistic and Linguistic Cognizing.- The "Deep" Cognitive System Shared by Things and Words.- Lecture III The Paradigm Clash in Psycholinguistics: Revolution or Pendula Swings?.- Orientation.- Paradigm Clash In Psycholinguistics.- On the Natures of Scientific Revolutions and Pendula Swings.- Transformational Grammar: A Revolution?.- Lecture IV Structure and Meaning in Cognizing.- Orientation.- Salience of the Word in Cognizing-and Why.- Structure of the Representational Level.- Functional Notions Relating to the LEXICON.- Semantic Feature Discovery Procedures.- By Way of Conclusion.- Lecture V Naturalness in Cognizing and Sentencing.- Orientation.- Naturalness in Ordering the Constituents of Simplexes (F IV).- Naturalness of Word-Ordering within the Constituents of Simplexes (F V).- Naturalness in Ordering the Clauses of Complexes (F VI).- Naturalness in Memory Functioning.- Lecture VI Pollyanna and Congruence Dynamics: From Yang and Yin to and or but.- Orientation.- Affective Polarity Dynamics: Pollyannaism.- Congruence Dynamics: Psycho-Logic.- The Finer Semantics of Congruity Interactions.- Lecture VII Salience Dynamics and Unnaturalness in Sentence Production.- Orientation.- Salience Dynamics in Cognizing.- Unnaturalness in Sentence Production (F VII).- Expressing Unnaturally Ordered Sentences by Speakers (F VIII-I).- Some Literature Relevant to Salience Dynamics and Sentence Production.- Lecture VIII Processing of Unnaturally Ordered Sentences in Comprehending.- Orientation.- Formal Statement of F VIII-II with Sentential Examples.- Adumbration on Unnatural Sentencing.- A Proposal for Systematic Research on Comprehension Processing Times.- Some Relevant Linguistic and Psycholinguistic Evidence.- An Implication for Linguistics.- Appendices.- References.
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Includes indexes.

Bibliography: p. [259]-266.

Lecture I What Is a Language?.- Orientation.- Defining Characteristics of Language Generally.- Defining Characteristics of Human Languages.- Nondefining Characteristics of Human Languages.- How May Human Languages Have Originated?.- Lecture II Things and Words.- Orientation.- A Capsule Life-History of Behaviorism.- The Componential Nature of Representational Mediators.- The Intimate Parallelism of Nonlinguistic and Linguistic Cognizing.- The "Deep" Cognitive System Shared by Things and Words.- Lecture III The Paradigm Clash in Psycholinguistics: Revolution or Pendula Swings?.- Orientation.- Paradigm Clash In Psycholinguistics.- On the Natures of Scientific Revolutions and Pendula Swings.- Transformational Grammar: A Revolution?.- Lecture IV Structure and Meaning in Cognizing.- Orientation.- Salience of the Word in Cognizing-and Why.- Structure of the Representational Level.- Functional Notions Relating to the LEXICON.- Semantic Feature Discovery Procedures.- By Way of Conclusion.- Lecture V Naturalness in Cognizing and Sentencing.- Orientation.- Naturalness in Ordering the Constituents of Simplexes (F IV).- Naturalness of Word-Ordering within the Constituents of Simplexes (F V).- Naturalness in Ordering the Clauses of Complexes (F VI).- Naturalness in Memory Functioning.- Lecture VI Pollyanna and Congruence Dynamics: From Yang and Yin to and or but.- Orientation.- Affective Polarity Dynamics: Pollyannaism.- Congruence Dynamics: Psycho-Logic.- The Finer Semantics of Congruity Interactions.- Lecture VII Salience Dynamics and Unnaturalness in Sentence Production.- Orientation.- Salience Dynamics in Cognizing.- Unnaturalness in Sentence Production (F VII).- Expressing Unnaturally Ordered Sentences by Speakers (F VIII-I).- Some Literature Relevant to Salience Dynamics and Sentence Production.- Lecture VIII Processing of Unnaturally Ordered Sentences in Comprehending.- Orientation.- Formal Statement of F VIII-II with Sentential Examples.- Adumbration on Unnatural Sentencing.- A Proposal for Systematic Research on Comprehension Processing Times.- Some Relevant Linguistic and Psycholinguistic Evidence.- An Implication for Linguistics.- Appendices.- References.

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