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Your Foot's on My Feet!: And Other Tricky Nouns
by Marvin Terban  Publisher Comments This entertaining work explores the plural forms of 100 irregular nouns, such as mouse/mice, in humorous rhymes and tongue twisters. Illustrations....
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Practical Spelling (Practical Spelling)
by Learning Express Llc Publisher Comments Practical Spelling was specially designed for students and busy adults who need to improve basic spelling skills quickly to move ahead at work and in the classroom. Through a self-contained program of 20 lessons that take just 20 minutes a day to...
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Language Acquisition
by Jill G De Villiers Publisher Comments The study of language acquisition has become a center of scientific inquiry into the nature of the human mind. The result is a windfall of new information about language, about learning, and about children themselves. In Language AcquisitionJill and...
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Linguistic Inquiry Monographs #6: Some Concepts and Consequences of the Theory of Government and Binding
by Noam Chomsky Publisher Comments Noam Chomsky, more than any other researcher, has radically restructured the study of human language over the past several decades. While the study of government and binding is an outgrowth of Chomsky's earlier work in transformational grammar, it...
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Noun + verb compounding in Western romance
by Kathryn Klingebiel Publisher Comments This study traces the development of the Noun + Verb compositional pattern, e.g., Latin manutenere, in four western Romance languages, providing listings of medieval and modern examples. The pattern has disappeared from literary French and Spanish, yet...
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Dictionary of Word Origins
by John Ayto Book News Annotation The first US edition of a 1990 British book (changes, if any, are not delineated). The selection includes common English words as well as less common ones that have intrinsically interesting or instructive life histories. No pronunciation. Arcade is a...
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Analysis to Synthesis: The Development of Complex Verb Morphology in the Dravidian Language
by Sanford Steever Publisher Comments Analysis to Synthesis introduces the process of Compound Verb Contraction to analyze the genesis of synthetic verb forms in the Dravidian languages. Contraction provides an explanation for their development from analytic forms by creating a paradigm of...
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The Proceedings of the Twenty-Seventh Annual Child Language Research Forum
by Eve V. Clark Publisher Comments This volume makes an empirical, as well as a theoretical, contribution to linguistic research....
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The Proceedings of the Twenty-Fifth Annual Child Language Research Forum
by Eve V Clark Publisher Comments This volume presents research in the field of first language acquisition discussed at the 1993 meeting of the Child Language Research Forum.The contributors are Maria A. Alegre, Ursula Bellugi, Jeffrey G. Bettger, Paul Bloom, Melissa Bowerman, Ursula...
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The state of the language :English observed
by Philip Howard Publisher Comments Is the English language in decline? Many people seem to think so--but Philip Howard isn't one of them. The Literary Editor of The Times of London, Howard takes a robust, commonsensical view of the changes that are happening in English. His is not the...
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Practical Phonetics for Students of African Languages
by Diedrich Westermann Publisher Comments Practical Phonetics for Students of African Languages was first published in 1933. It is the product of a particularly fruitful partnership between two scholars — one British, one German. Each had a specialist training in phonetics and enjoyed a...
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Language Lottery: Toward a Biology of Grammars
by David Lightfoot Publisher Comments David Lightfoot is Director, Linguistics Program, University of Maryland and Extraordinary Professor of Linguistics, University of Utrecht, Netherlands....
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Study of Language: An Introduction
by George Yule Publisher Comments This textbook provides a straightforward and comprehensive survey of the basic issues and topics involved in the study of language. Its twenty chapters range over speculation about the origin of language, the relationship between language and animal...
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Years Work in Modern Language Studies
by Glanville Price Book News Annotation **** Title cited in Sheehy. Surveys the published works in linguistics from 1987, covering the fields of Romance, Celtic, Germanic, and Slavonic languages and literatures. Within each main section, a host of specialists presents complete annotated...
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Library of Arabic Linguistics #12: Siculo Arabic
by Dionisius A Agius Publisher Comments This book re-examines the socio-linguistic situation in Sicily during both the Islamic (213-485/827-1091) and the Norman (485-681/1091-1282) rules. Together with Islam and Christianity, the customs of the local people mixed with those of the Arabs...
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Slanguage: A Cool, Fresh, Phat, and Shagadelic Guide to All Kinds of Slang
by Mike Ellis Synopsis A worldwide guide to slang is offered by America's favorite "slangologist" and creator of one of the Internet's most popular Websites--voted by "Wired" as one of the top five fun sites of 1998. 50 illustrations....
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Languages & Lives: Essays in Honor of Werner Enninger
by James R Dow Book News Annotation Twenty-one essays (eight of which are presented in German) honoring the diverse interests of linguist Werner Enninger, including the language and lives of the Pennsylvania Anabaptists, applied and theoretical linguistics and didactics, and semiotics...
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Linguistic Atlas of the Gulf States Volume 4
by Lee Pederson Book News Annotation The LAGS materials include phonetic transcriptions of over 5,000 hours of taped interviews and, in a Concordance, a further transliteration from phonetics into standard English spelling. The General Index lists every word found within the Concordance....
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Proceedings of the Ninth West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics
by Aaron Halpern Publisher Comments Most of the papers presented at the 1990 West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics are included in this volume. This annual publication, not readily available in the past, makes the latest research in formal linguistics available to a wider audience....
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Computer Models of American Speech
by M Margaret Withgott Publisher Comments A new perspective on phonetic variation is achieved in this volume through the construction of a series of models of spoken American English. In the past, computer theorists and programmers investigating pronunciation have often relied on their own...
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