Description |
1 online resource (397 pages) |
Series |
Open Linguistics |
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Open linguistics series.
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Contents |
Contents; Preface; Introduction; PART I: ORIENTATION TO HARD-SCIENCE LINGUISTICS; PART II: RECONSTITUTING PHONETICS-PHONOLOGY; PART III: IN SEARCH OF CONTEXT; PART IV: VARIATIONAL AND HISTORICAL LINGUSTICS; PART V: SOCIAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL ISSUES; PART VI: PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS; PART VII: DISCIPLINARY CONSIDERATIONS; Contributors; Index |
Summary |
The impossibility of testing the depth hypothesis of 1960 of a connection between the complexities of grammar and a limited human temporary memory led to questioning the ancient grammatical foundations of linguistics and to developing standard hard-science foundations. This volume is the first detailed report on how to reconstitute linguistics on the new hard-science foundation laid by Victor H. Yngve in 1996. Hard-science (human) linguistics is the scientific study of how people communicate. It studies people and also communicative energy flow and other relevant parts of the physical environme |
Notes |
Print version record |
Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Wąsik, Zdzisław.
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ISBN |
1281292028 |
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1847140882 (electronic bk.) |
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9781281292025 |
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9781847140883 (electronic bk.) |
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