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Language Acquisition
The Growth of Grammar
2017 || Paperback || Maria Teresa Guasti || MIT Press Ltd
The new edition of a comprehensive introduction to a rapidly developing field, combining developmental data with theory.
Hamlet on the Holodeck
The Future of Narrative in Cyberspace
2017 || Paperback || Janet H. Murray || MIT Press Ltd
An updated edition of the classic book on digital storytelling, with a new introduction and expansive chapter commentaries. I want to say to all the hacker-bards from every field—gamers, researchers, journalists, artists, programmers, scriptwriters, creators of authoring systems... please know that I wrote this book for you."— Hamlet on the Holodeck, from the author's introduction to the updated edition Janet Murray's Hamlet on the Holodeck was instantly influential and controversial when...
The Big Book of Concepts
2004 || Paperback || Gregory Murphy || MIT Press Ltd
Concepts embody our knowledge of the kinds of things there are in the world. Tying our past experiences to our present interactions with the environment, they enable us to recognize and understand new objects and events. Concepts are also relevant to understanding domains such as social situations, personality types, and even artistic styles. Yet like other phenomenologically simple cognitive processes such as walking or understanding speech, concept formation and use are maddeningly complex....