Interface Strategies: Optimal and Costly Computations

by Tanya Reinhart

Book Overview

In this monograph Tanya Reinhart discusses strategies enabling the interface of different cognitive systems, which she identifies as the systems of concepts, inference, context, and sound. Her point of departure is Noam Chomsky's hypothesis that language is optimally designed -- namely, that in many cases, the bare minimum needed for constructing syntactic derivations is sufficient for the full needs of the interface. Deviations from this principle...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262681560
• ISBN13: 9780262681568
• Release Date: March 2006
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 340 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher