Massaro Understanding Language

An Information-Processing Analysis of Speech Perception, Reading, and Psycholinguistics
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-4832-5828-7
Verlag: Elsevier Science & Techn.
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 452 Seiten, Web PDF

Understanding Language: An Information-Processing Analysis of Speech Perception, Reading, and Psycholinguistics focuses on the progress of approaches, principles, and practices involved in speech perception, reading, and psycholinguistics. The selection first offers information on language and information processing, articulatory and acoustic characteristics of speech sounds, and acoustic features in speech perception. Discussions focus on vowel and consonant recognition, production of speech sounds, general acoustic properties and occurrence of speech sounds, vowel phonemes of English, and information, auditory, and visual information processing. The text then examines preperceptual images, processing time, and perceptual units in speech perception, theories of perception, and visual features, preperceptual storage, and processing time in reading. Topics include processing time, visual features, summary of information-processing analysis of speech perception, role of linguistic structure in model building, and preperceptual images and processing time. The manuscript takes a look at an analysis of psychological studies of grammar, word and phrase recognition in speech processing, and linguistic theory and information processing, including psychological function of certain transformation rules, psychological reality of constituent structure, and linguistics and psychology. The selection is a vital source of data for researchers interested in speech perception, reading, and psycholinguistics.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Massaro, Dominic W.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Front Cover;1
2;Advances in Archaeological Method and Theory;4
3;Copyright Page;5
4;Table of Contents;6
5;List of Contributors;10
6;Contents of Previous Volumes;12
7;Chapter 1. Cult Archaeology and Unscientific Method and Theory;16
7.1;CULT ARCHAEOLOGY;19
7.2;INTERPRETATION OF THE PHENOMENON OF CULT ARCHAEOLOGY;32
7.3;THE NEED TO DEAL WITH CULT ARCHAEOLOGY;38
7.4;CONCLUSIONS;43
7.5;REFERENCES;44
8;Chapter 2. Evolutionary Theory and Archaeology;50
8.1;EVOLUTION;53
8.2;CULTURAL EVOLUTION;55
8.3;MODERN EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY;66
8.4;EVOLUTION AND ARCHAEOLOGY;81
8.5;SOME CONCLUSIONS;97
8.6;THE FUTURE OF EVOLUTIONARY THEORY IN ARCHAEOLOGY;98
8.7;CONCLUSIONS;104
8.8;ACKNOWLEDGMENTS;104
8.9;REFERENCES;105
9;Chapter 3. The Archaeological Study of Adaptation: Theoretical and Methodological Issues;116
9.1;INTRODUCTION;116
9.2;ADAPTATION, EVOLUTION, AND ECOLOGY;117
9.3;CULTURAL ADAPTATION;120
9.4;COMPONENTS OF ADAPTATION;130
9.5;ARCHAEOLOGICAL APPROACHES TO ADAPTATION;145
9.6;PROSPECTS;162
9.7;ACKNOWLEDGMENTS;163
9.8;REFERENCES;163
10;Chapter 4. The Use of General Ecological Principles in Archaeology;172
10.1;HOW GENERAL PRINCIPLES ARE USED: AN EXAMPLE;173
10.2;SOME LOGICAL PROBLEMS;174
10.3;THE ECOLOGICAL EXPLANATION OF CULTURAL DIVERSITY;177
10.4;CONCLUSION;197
10.5;REFERENCES;198
11;Chapter 5. Explanatory/Predictive Models of Hunter-Gatherer Adaptation;204
11.1;BACKGROUND;204
11.2;ETHNOGRAPHIC STUDIES;211
11.3;GENERAL MODELS OF HUNTER-GATHERER ADAPTATION;218
11.4;MODELS OF SUBSISTENCE;222
11.5;MODELS OF SETTLEMENT LOCATION AND TERRITORIALITY;237
11.6;MODELS OF POPULATION;241
11.7;DISCUSSION;246
11.8;CONCLUSION;255
11.9;ACKNOWLEDGMENTS;257
11.10;REFERENCES;257
12;Chapter 6. An Optimum Diet Model, Coastal Variability, and Hunter-Gatherer Behavior;272
12.1;INTRODUCTION;272
12.2;MODEL DEFINITIONS AND ASSUMPTIONS;273
12.3;AN ENERGY-BASED MODEL OF COASTAL SYSTEMS;276
12.4;RELATIVE PRODUCTIVITY RANKING OF TERRESTRIAL AND NONTERRESTRIAL ZONES;286
12.5;LEAST EFFORT-LEAST RISK DECISION MAKING AND HUMAN BEHAVIOR;287
12.6;ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXPECTATIONS;298
12.7;ADDITIONAL COMMENTS;309
12.8;CONCLUSION;313
12.9;ACKNOWLEDGMENTS;314
12.10;REFERENCES;314
13;Chapter 7. Toward a General Mode! of Agricultural Systems;326
13.1;INTRODUCTION;326
13.2;ECONOMIC APPROACHES TO AGRICULTURE;328
13.3;ECOLOGICAL APPROACHES TO AGRICULTURE;345
13.4;TOWARD A GENERAL MODEL OF AGRICULTURAL SYSTEMS;352
13.5;CONCLUSION;359
13.6;ACKNOWLEDGMENTS;360
13.7;REFERENCES;360
14;Chapter 8. Vicissitudes and Overkill: The Development of Explanation of Pleistocene Extinctions;372
14.1;INTRODUCTION;372
14.2;REALIZATION OF THE PROBLEM;373
14.3;MAJOR NINETEENTH-CENTURY EXPLANATIONS OF PLEISTOCENE EXTINCTIONS;375
14.4;MODERN EXPLANATIONS OF PLEISTOCENE EXTINCTIONS;397
14.5;CONCLUSION;405
14.6;ACKNOWLEDGMENTS;407
14.7;REFERENCES;407
15;Chapter 9. Obsidian Hydration Dating: A Coming of Age;420
15.1;INTRODUCTION;420
15.2;OBSIDIAN DATING IN ARCHAEOLOGY: CURRENT APPLICATIONS AND FUTURE POTENTIAL;423
15.3;OBSIDIAN DATING: RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT UP TO THE PRESENT;430
15.4;OBSIDIAN DATING AS A CHRONOMETRIC TECHNIQUE: PROBLEMS THAT LIMIT ITS EFFECTIVENESS;442
15.5;THE EFFECT OF CHEMICAL COMPOSITION ON THE OBSIDIAN HYDRATION PROCESS: WHAT IS UNDERSTOOD AND WHAT IS TO BE DONE;443
15.6;CURRENT RESEARCH;447
15.7;SPUTTER-INDUCED OPTICAL EMISSION;448
15.8;CONCLUSION;450
15.9;ACKNOWLEDGMENTS;454
15.10;REFERENCES;454
16;Index;460