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Phonological Networks and Their Growth in Second Languages
This groundbreaking book unveils the crucial role of network science in understanding the lexical organization of second languages via its exploration of English learners. Network science has become increasingly popular in the cognitive sciences, including linguistics. Phonological Networks and Their Growth in Second Languages is the first to explore lexical networks in learners of English as a second language with a focus on the relationships between phonological word forms in the mental lexicon. It highlights the contributions that network science can make to the study of lexical organization of second languages. Within the theoretical framework of evolving networks, lexical learning is seen as a process of network growth. The book models the lexicon as a growing phonological network that increases in size as language users advance through second language proficiency stages. As such, the analysis of specific growth algorithms (such as preferential attachment) accounts for observed mechanisms of lexical acquisition. Empirical models of evolving lexical networks can help shed light on the structural changes occurring as the second language lexicon expands.
Landscapes of Collectivity in the Life Sciences
Broad perspective on collectivity in the life sciences, from microorganisms to human consensus, and the theoretical and empirical opportunities and challenges. Many researchers and scholars in the life sciences have become increasingly critical of the traditional methodological focus on the individual. This volume counters such methodological individualism by exploring recent and influential work in the life sciences that utilizes notions of collectivity, sociality, rich interactions, and emergent phenomena as essential explanatory tools to handle numerous persistent scientific questions in the life sciences. The contributors consider case studies of collectivity that range from microorganis...
Music in Human Experience
Music plays an integral role in many facets of human life, from the biological and social to the spiritual and political. This book brings together interdisciplinary and cross-cultural studies on the functions, purposes, and meanings of music in human experience.
The Wonders of Creation
In this insightful exploration of Narnia and Middle-earth, Biologist Kristen Page discovers what we these beloved fictional landscapes might teach us about our real-life landscapes and how to become better stewards of God's good creation.
Different
A ground-breaking look at gender and sex from the world's leading primatologist and New York Times bestselling author of ARE WE SMART ENOUGH TO KNOW HOW SMART ANIMALS ARE? 'Brilliant and fascinating... brings a scientific, compassionate and balanced approach to some of the hottest controversies about sex and gender' Yuval Noah Harari, author of Sapiens, Homo Deus and 21 Lessons for the 21st Century How different are the sexes? Is gender uniquely human? Where does gender identity originate? Drawing on decades of observing our closest living relatives, chimpanzees and bonobos, world-renowned primatologist Frans de Waal explores what we know of biological sex differences and of the role of cult...
Protomusic: The role of Prosodic Modulation in the Emergence of Language
Anastasi introduces an alternative vision about language development and music involvement to the current scientific discourse. Her view is based on a rigorous evolutionary perspective, through which she not only demonstrates the hypothesis of vocal continuity with other species via morphological data but, more importantly, also demonstrates how music is first and foremost a biological and cognitive trait. The bond between animal and human communication is here interpreted as an interspecific universal with a clear evolutionary impact on the speech’s natural history. Such continuity does not undermine the species-specificity of our linguistic system and, at the same time, supports the theo...
Speech Dynamics
The relationship between diachronic change and synchronic variation at the articulatory, auditory, acoustic and social level is one of the greatest puzzles in the study of language. Even though plentiful examples exist to suggest that dynamics of synchronic variation and diachronic change are tightly interconnected, a unified theory to account for language change in its relationship to all layers of synchronic variation remains a desideratum. This volume compiles new evidence from articulatory, acoustic, auditory, sociolinguistic, and phonological analyses of segmental and prosodic data and computational modelling, and offers a refreshing theoretical angle on the ongoing debates in language ...
LCM Journal. Vol 6, No 1 (2019). Discursive Representations of Controversial Issues in Medicine and Health
Lingue Culture Mediazioni / Languages Cultures Mediation (LCM Journal), edited by the Department of Language Mediation and Intercultural Communication of Università degli Studi di Milano, is a peer-reviewed journal which aims to investigate the linguistic and cultural phenomena characterising the contemporary world, and explore them in the context of the highly intricate web of historical, geographical, social and legal factors in which they are set. Issue 1/2019 Table of Contents: Discursive Representations of Controversial Issues in Medicine and Health, Giuliana Elena Garzone, Maria Cristina Paganoni, Martin Reisigl - Discourse Strategies of Fake News in the Anti-vax Campaign, Stefania Ma...
Anders
Frans De Waal laat zien dat genderverschillen een biologische basis hebben, de evolutionaire biologie draagt daarmee bij aan een genuanceerder cultureel begrip van gender. Frans de Waal buigt zich over verschillen in sekse en gender bij de mens en andere dieren. Hij maakt hierbij gebruik van zijn grote kennis van onze naaste verwanten: chimpansees en bonobo’s. Wat is het geheim van de door vrouwen geleide vreedzame samenleving van bonobo’s? En wat kunnen wij mensen leren van mannelijke dominantie en territorialiteit bij chimpansees? Tegenwoordig wordt vaak beweerd dat genderverschillen het resultaat zijn van sociale vorming, maar De Waal toont aan dat het een biologische basis heeft. Hij behandelt onderwerpen als genderidentiteit, seksualiteit, gendergerelateerd geweld, vriendschap en zorgzaamheid, en laat overtuigend zien dat de evolutionaire biologie bijdraagt aan een genuanceerder cultureel begrip van gender.
Diferentes
Pelas lentes de um dos mais renomados primatologistas da atualidade, uma nova perspectiva sobre as relações entre sexo e gênero. Com humor, clareza e empatia, este livro procura ampliar o debate, abraçando as diferenças em vez de negá-las. As diferenças entre os sexos nos animais e nos humanos suscitam questões que estão no cerne de quase todos os debates sobre gênero na nossa espécie. O comportamento de homens e mulheres difere de maneira natural ou socialmente construída? E quanto ele é realmente diverso? Em Diferentes, Frans de Waal baseia-se em décadas de estudo do comportamento de grandes primatas para defender que, apesar da ligação entre gênero e sexo biológico, a bi...
