1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910455411903321

Titolo

Biological foundations and origin of syntax [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Derek Bickerton and Eörs Szathmáry

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, MA, : MIT Press, 2009

ISBN

0-262-29379-X

1-282-69428-6

9786612694288

0-262-25858-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (491 p.)

Collana

Strüngmann Forum reports

Altri autori (Persone)

BickertonDerek

SzathmáryEörs

Disciplina

612.8/2336

Soggetti

Grammar, Comparative and general - Syntax

Biolinguistics

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Forum held July 13-18, 2008, in Frankfurt, Germany.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; The Ernst Strüngmann Forum; List of Contributors; Preface; Background; 1 Syntax for Non-syntacticians; 2 The Biological Background of Syntax Evolution; 3 Functional Neuroimaging and the Logic of Brain Operations; Syntactics; 4 Some Elements of Syntactic Computations; 5 The Adaptive Approach to Grammar; 6 Fundamental Syntactic Phenomena and Their Putative Relation to the Brain; 7 What Kinds of Syntactic Phenomena Must Biologists, Neurobiologists, and Computer Scientists Try to Explain and Replicate?; Evolution; 8 Possible Precursors of Syntactic Components in Other Species

9 What Can Developmental Language Impairment Tell Us about the Genetic Bases of Syntax?10 What Are the Possible Biological and Genetic Foundations for Syntactic Phenomena?; Brain; 11 Brain Circuits of Syntax; 12 Neural Organization for Syntactic Processing as Determined by Effects of Lesions; 13 Reflections on the Neurobiology of Syntax; 14 What Are the Brain Mechanisms Underlying Syntactic Operations?; Modeling; 15 Syntax as an Adaptation to the Learner; 16 Cognition and Social Dynamics Play a Major Role in the Formation of



Grammar

17 What Can Formal or Computational Models Tell Us about How (Much) Language Shaped the Brain?18 What Can Mathematical, Computational, and Robotic Models Tell Us about the Origins of Syntax?; Glossary; Bibliography; Subject Index

Sommario/riassunto

Interdisciplinary perspectives on the evolutionary & biological roots of syntax, describing current research on syntax in fields ranging from linguistics to neurology.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910831032603321

Autore

Webb Richard C.

Titolo

Tele-visionaries : the people behind the invention of television / / Richard C. Webb

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hoboken [New Jersey] : , : John Wiley, , c2005

[Piscataqay, New Jersey] : , : IEEE Xplore, , [2005]

ISBN

1-280-23567-5

9786610235674

0-470-24873-4

0-471-74371-2

0-471-74370-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (188 p.)

Collana

IEEE press understanding science & technology series ; ; 19

Disciplina

621.388

621.388009

Soggetti

Television - History

Television broadcasting - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Who invented television? -- The vacuum tube era -- Dr. Vladimir Kosmo Zworykin -- The foremost problem of television -- Philo Farnsworth -- Television at Purdue University -- Sarnoff, radio, and early television -- The RCA laboratories division -- The evolution of sensitive camera tubes -- The field-sequential color incident -- The invention of compatible color -- The shadow mask color picture tubes



-- A projector, camera, and triniscope -- Transmitting color pictures -- The color television hearings of 1949/1950 -- Delayed broadcasting -- Goodbye RCA -- The beginnings of digital television -- Historic report on camera tube development.

Sommario/riassunto

This excellent publication provides a historical background of the dream of sight/sound extension by electric means and identification of the major participants is given. The book examines the foremost problem delaying the early progress of television and explores how the development of full-colour television by examining the inventions needed to achieve the dream, the people who produced them, the role of the motion picture industry, and more. * Offers both a personal historical perspective of the development of television and an overview of the technology * A unique opportunity to learn of the beginnings of television from one of RCA's pioneering engineers.