Overview
- The first book length overview of a central topic in psychology, linguistics, and philosophy
- Offers a unique integrative overview of experimental work in various areas of semantics and psychology
- A state-of-the-art overview of this interdisciplinary field by leading authors and young scholars
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Language, Cognition, and Mind (LCAM, volume 3)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- cognitive science and linguistics
- compositionality
- concept composition in linguistics
- derivation of concept representations
- empirical research in linguistics
- experimental semantics
- experimental work in linguistics
- formal semantics
- language and cognition
- lexical concepts
- meaning and use of logical concepts
- meaning and use of logical operators
- meanings of complex expressions
- semantic prototypes
- Open access
About this book
By highlighting relations between experimental and theoretical work, this volume explores new ways of addressing one of the central challenges in the study of language and cognition. The articles bring together work by leading scholars and younger researchers in psychology, linguistics and philosophy. An introductory chapter lays out the background on concept composition, a problem that is stimulating much new research in cognitive science. Researchers in this interdisciplinary domain aim to explain how meanings of complex expressions are derived from simple lexical concepts and to show how these meanings connect to concept representations. Traditionally, much of the work on concept composition has been carried out within separate disciplines, where cognitive psychologists have concentrated on concept representations, and linguists and philosophers have focused on the meaning and use of logical operators. This volume demonstrates an important change in this situation, where convergence points between these three disciplines in cognitive science are emerging and are leading to new findings and theoretical insights.
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Yoad Winter is a linguist specializing in formal semantics. After obtaining his MSc in Computer Science and Mathematics from Tel-Aviv University, and PhD in Linguistics from Utrecht University, he was appointed as lecturer in Computer Science at Technion, Israel Institute of Technology. After having worked as an associate professor at Technion, he moved to Utrecht University in 2010, where he was appointed as a full professor in Semantics and Artificial Intelligence in 2014. Over the last twenty years he has published extensively in the area of formal semantics. His monograph Flexibility Principles in Boolean Semantics appeared with MIT Press (2001), and his advanced textbook Elements of Formal Semantics with Edinburgh University Press (2016). His main interests are plurality, logical operators in language, spatial expressions, computational reasoning and African drum languages.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Compositionality and Concepts in Linguistics and Psychology
Editors: James A. Hampton, Yoad Winter
Series Title: Language, Cognition, and Mind
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-45977-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-45975-2Published: 27 September 2017
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-45977-6Published: 19 September 2017
Series ISSN: 2364-4109
Series E-ISSN: 2364-4117
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 337
Number of Illustrations: 29 b/w illustrations
Topics: Semantics, Cognitive Psychology, Philosophy of Language, Psycholinguistics