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Modelling Language Behaviour

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  • © 1981

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Authors:
  1. Rangaswamy Narasimhan

    1. Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, National Center for Software Development and Computing Techniques, Bombay, India

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Part of the book series: Springer Series in Language and Communication (SSLAN, volume 10)

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XVI
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  2. A Framework for Modelling Behaviour

    • Rangaswamy Narasimhan
    Pages 1-26

  3. The Mediating Role of Language Behaviour

    • Rangaswamy Narasimhan
    Pages 27-55

  4. Teaching Language Behaviour to Chimpanzees

    • Rangaswamy Narasimhan
    Pages 56-82

  5. Language Behaviour Schemata and Tokens in English

    • Rangaswamy Narasimhan
    Pages 83-113

  6. Implications of the Model for Child Language Acquisition

    • Rangaswamy Narasimhan
    Pages 114-149

  7. Computer Simulation of Language Behaviour

    • Rangaswamy Narasimhan
    Pages 150-175

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 176-217
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About this book

This book studies language behaviour in the larger context of modelling or­ ganismic behaviour more generally. It starts out from the basic premise that what is characteristic of organismic behaviour is that an organism uses its behavioural acts to accomplish something in its interactions with the world in which it finds itself. These two features, that an organism has a behav­ ioural repertoire and that it deploys specific behavioural acts from its repertoire in an intentional way, define the agentive nature of an organism. The study of organismic behaviour, then, must primarily concern itself with this agentive aspect of an organism and determine what structures and proces­ ses underlie these intentional organismic acts. We should be able to say what primitive structures and what primitive processes put together in what ways can give rise to the kinds of behavioural acts an organism engages in. Any explanation of behaviour that we formulate in terms of underlying structures and processes must be testable and must be consonant with the observed pheno­ menological aspects of such behaviour.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, National Center for Software Development and Computing Techniques, Bombay, India

    Rangaswamy Narasimhan

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Modelling Language Behaviour

  • Authors: Rangaswamy Narasimhan

  • Series Title: Springer Series in Language and Communication

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-67934-6

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1981

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-67936-0Published: 07 December 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-67934-6Published: 12 March 2013

  • Series ISSN: 0172-620X

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVI, 220

  • Topics: Acoustics

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