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A Generative Theory of Tonal Music
by Fred Lerdahl  Publisher Comments This work, which has become a classic in music theory since its publication in 1983, models music understanding from the perspective of cognitive science. The point of departure is a search for a grammar of music with the aid of generative linguistics...
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Functional Categories
by Pieter Muysken Publisher Comments In every language there are descriptive lexical elements, such as evening and whisper, as well as grammatical elements, such as the and -ing. The distinction between these two elements has proven useful in a number of domains, but what is covered by the...
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A Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics
by David Crystal Publisher Comments David Crystal's A Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics has long been the standard single-volume reference for its field. Now available in its sixth edition, it has been revised and updated to reflect the latest terms in the field. Includes in excess...
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Lang & Communicative Prac PB (Critical Essays in Anthropology)
by William F. Hanks Publisher Comments Written in an informal style with engaging examples, this introduction to the study of language in context presents a provocative new approach to communicative practice. Emphasizing the dual status of language as linguistic system and as social fact...
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How Languages Are Learned 3RD Edition
by Patsy M Lightbown Publisher Comments This thoroughly updated third edition presents the main theories of language acquisition, considering their bearing on language teaching. It discusses the effects of factors such as intelligence, personality, and age. It helps teachers assess the merits...
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The Meaning of Yiddish
by Benjamin Harshav Publisher Comments With a rare combination of erudition and insight, the author investigates the major aspects of Yiddish language and culture, showing where Yiddish came from and what it has to offer, even as it ceases to be a “living” language. Reviews “...
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Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics #2: Sounds Like Life: Sound-Symbolic Grammar, Performance, and Cognition in Pastaza Quechua
by Janis B Nuckolls Publisher Comments Sound-symbolism occurs when words resemble the sounds associated with the phenomena they attempt to describe, rather than an arbitrary representation. For example the word raven is arbitrary in that it does not resemble a raven; cuckoo, however, is sound...
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Languages of the World 3RD Edition
by Kenneth Katzner Publisher Comments Written with the non-specialist in mind, this third edition of Kenneth Katzner's best-selling guide's attractive style and layout, delightful original passages and exotic scripts will continue to fascinate all language scholars and linguists. This new...
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Introduction To Old English (2ND 08 Edition)
by Peter Baker Synopsis "Introduction to Old English" is the leading text available designed to help students engage with Old English literary and historical texts for the first time. This new edition builds on the success of the original and includes an expanded anthology and...
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News is a Verb: Journalism at the End of the 20th Century (Library of Contemporary Thought)
by Pete Hamill Publisher Comments The newest title in The Library of Contemporary Thought series, "News Is a Verb" casts a critical--and hopeful--eye on the state of modern journalism. NPR sponsorship....
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Current Studies in Linguistics #28: The Minimalist Program
by Noam Chomsky Publisher Comments The Minimalist Program consists of four recent essays that attempt to situate linguistic theory in the broader cognitive sciences. In these essays the minimalist approach to linguistic theory is formulated and progressively developed. Building on the...
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Language Shift and Cultural Reproduction : Socialization, Self and Syncretism in a Papua New Guinea Village (92 Edition)
by Don Kulick Publisher Comments Don Kulick's book is an anthropological study of language and cultural change among a small group of people living in the Sepik region of Papua New Guinea. He examines why the villagers of Gapun are abandoning their vernacular in favor of Tok Pisin, the...
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Dash of Style : Art and Mastery of Punctuation (06 Edition)
by Noah Lukeman Publisher Comments "Takes the straitjacket off punctuation....Lukeman's wit and insight make this an instant classic."—M. J. Rose The first practical and accessible guide to the art of punctuation for creative writers. Punctuation reveals the writer: haphazard commas,...
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Key Thinkers in Linguistics and the Philosophy of Language
by Siobhan (edt) Chapman Publisher Comments This book is a unique and accessible reference guide to the work of eighty key figures who have played an important role in the development of ideas about language from antiquity to the twenty-first century. The entries are extensively cross referenced...
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Loom of Language : an Approach To the Mastery of Many Languages (85 Edition)
by Frederick Bodmer Publisher Comments Here is an informative introduction to language: its origins in the past, its growth through history, and its present use for communication between peoples. It is at the same time a history of language, a guide to foreign tongues, and a method for...
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Structuring Sense
by Hagit Borer Publisher Comments Structuring Sense explores the difference between words however defined and structures however constructed. It sets out to demonstrate over three volumes, of which this is the first, that the explanation of linguistic competence should be shifted from...
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Atlas of Languages (Rev 03 Edition)
by Bernard Comrie, Maria Polinsky, Stephen Matthews Comrie Publisher Comments The origins of language have long been the subject of myth and conjecture...
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Untying the Knot: On Riddles and Other Enigmatic Modes
by Galit Hasan Rokem Publisher Comments This book collects eighteen previously unpublished essays on the riddle--a genre of discourse found in virtually every human culture. Hasan-Rokem and Shulman have drawn these essays from a variety of cultural perspectives and disciplines; linguists...
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Truth, Thought, Reason: Essays on Frege
by Tyler Burge Publisher Comments Tyler Burge presents a collection of his seminal essays on Gottlob Frege (1848-1925), who has a strong claim to be seen as the founder of modern analytic philosophy, and whose work remains at the centre of philosophical debate today. Truth, Thought...
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Introducing Linguistics (Rev 06 Edition)
by R. L. Trask Publisher Comments Introducing Linguistics presents a summary of the history of linguistics, from Aristotle to Chomsky, and provides a review of the most recent and dramatic advances in the field, such as first language acquisition by children, language in the brain, sign...
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