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How Language Works: How Babies Babble, Words Change Meaning, and Languages Live or Die
by David Crystal  Publisher Comments Whether looking at the whistle languages of the Canary Islands or describing the layout of the human throat, this landmark book will enrich the lives of everyone who reads it....
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The Acquisition of Constructions (Center for the Study of Language and Information - Lecture N)
by Barb Kelly Publisher Comments The Acquisition of Constructions is the culmination of new research into constructions of grammar in languages as diverse as Cantonese, English, French, German, Mandarin, Thai, and Tzeltal. The contributors, all noted scholars in the field of...
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Phonetically Based Phonology
by Robert Kirchner Publisher Comments This book is a study of phonetically-based phonology, investigating the role of phonetics in phonological sound patterns....
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Learner Autonomy Across Cultures: Language Education Perspectives
by David (edt) Palfreyman Publisher Comments DAVID PALFREYMAN is based at Zayed University, Dubai, contributing to ESOL-related programs in the English Language Centre and academic development in the Centre for Teaching, Learning and Assessment. RICHARD C. SMITH lectures in ELT/Applied Linguistics...
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Research in Technology Adn Second Language Learning: Developments and Directions (PB) (Research in Second Language Learning)
by Yong Zhao Book News Annotation Zhao (Michigan State U.) presents a collection of 17 articles reporting on empirical studies on the effective use of computer- assisted language learning (CALL). Written by 27 academics and researchers, all but one from the U.S., the majority of the...
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Expressways #4: Expressways: Level 4
by Steven J. Molinsky Publisher Comments ExpressWays is a complete four-level course for learners of English. Its innovative spiraled curriculum integrates lifeskill topics, functions, and grammar in an imaginative highway theme that puts students in the fast lane for an exciting and motivating...
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Bilingualism and Language Pedagogy
by Janina (edt) Brutt-griffler Book News Annotation Eight academics from the U.S., Europe, and Canada contribute eight papers intended to broaden the conceptualization of bilingualism and the professional development of bilingual teachers. Coverage includes the development of academic language in...
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Introduction To Contact Linguistics (03 Edition)
by Donald Winford Publisher Comments This book is a comprehensive introduction to the study of language contact and its outcomes, as well as the social and linguistic factors involved....
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Real Roots of German, Greek, Latin & English - Mini Word Origin Directory
by Rangi Ranganath Publisher Comments The two great hoaxes of today: 1. All human life began only in Africa. 2. Language and agriculture were developed in the Middle East. This book shatters both....
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History of English 2ND Edition
by Jonathan Culpeper Publisher Comments Routledge Language Workbooks provide absolute beginners with practical introductions to core areas of language study. Books in the series provide comprehensive coverage of the area, as well as a basis for further investigation. Each Language Workbook...
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Studies on Language Acquisition #27: The Acquisition of Numeral Classifiers
by Kasumi Yamamoto Publisher Comments This book is about the numeral classifier system and the acquisition of Japanese classifiers by Japanese children. It consists of three parts. First, it provides a general typological characterization of numeral classifier phrases and discusses the...
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Grammar and Gender
by Dennis E. Baron Publisher Comments A lively history of the sexual biases that exist in our language and a fascinating account of past and present efforts to correct these biases by reforming usage and vocabulary....
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Academic Voices; Across Languages and Disciplines.
by Fl< Book News Annotation The authors (of Norway's U. of Bergen and the Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration) present a research product of the KIAP project (full English title: Cultural Identity in Academic Prose: national versus discipline-specific...
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Academic Listening: Research Perspectives
by John Flowerdrew Publisher Comments This collection of original papers comprehensively addresses the area of second language academic listening. The papers are grouped under five broad headings. The first section provides an overview of research relevant to second language lecture...
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Syntactic Change in Akkadian: The Evolution of Sentential Complementation
by Guy Deutscher Publisher Comments In this book Guy Deutscher examines the historical development of Akkadian, the oldest recorded Semitic language and one of the earliest attested languages. Two thousand years of texts from 2500BC to 500BC provide a unique source for the study of...
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Syllable Weight: Phonetics, Phonology, Typology (Routledge Studies in Linguistics)
by Matthew Kelly Gordon Publisher Comments Drawing on a typological survey of 400 languages, this is the first systematic exploration of a series of phonological phenomena previously thought to be unified under the rubric of syllable weight. The book reveals that the traditional conception that...
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A Dictionary of the Maya Language: As Spoken in Hocaba, Yucatan
by Victoria Reifler Bricker Book News Annotation Rather than the Latin-based arrangement used in other dictionaries of what linguists call Yacutec and the speakers call Maya, systematically lists the stems that can be derived from each root and that give the language its distinctive character...
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The Harmonic Mind: From Neural Computation To Optimality-theoretic Grammarvolume I: Cognitive Architecturevolume II: Linguistic and Philo
by Paul Smolensky Publisher Comments Despite their apparently divergent accounts of higher cognition, cognitive theories based on neural computation and those employing symbolic computation can in fact strengthen one another. To substantiate this controversial claim, this landmark work...
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How Children Learn Meaning of Words (00 Edition)
by Paul Bloom Publisher Comments How children learn words through sophisticated cognitive abilities that exist for other purposes....
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Tefl Without Training: What Are the Consequences? - An Investigation of the Role of Assistant Language Teachers on the Jet Programme
by Alison Crump Publisher Comments In the field of Applied Linguistics, there are lively and critical discussions about the impact of the spread of English in the world. It is not clear, however, to what extent these discussions are being taken up by native English speakers who are hired...
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