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Emphasizing the relevance of philosophical work to investigations in other cognitive sciences, this text examines such issues as the meaning of language, the mind-body problem, the functionalist theories of cognition, and intentionality.

This text is intended to make issues involved in language understanding, such as speech and discourse, accessible to the widest group possible - scholars and researchers who depend on having a model of how communicative agents understand utterences and expect their own utterances to be understood.

This text presents the basic concepts of modern cognitive psychology in a succinct and accessible manner, combining empirical results, theoretical developments and current issues to produce accounts of research areas. An explanation is provided of the "meta-assumptions" which underlie research.

This text focuses on the field of phonology - the study of the systems of linguistically significant sounds. It covers a variety of topics including: the nature of phonological units; phonological rules; which types of phenomena interest phonologists; and the evolution of phonological theory.