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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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Saving Languages: An Introduction to Language Revitalization
by Lenore A Grenoble Publisher Comments Written not only for linguists and anthropologists, this book serves as a general reference guide to language revitalization for language activists and community members who believe they should ensure the future use of their languages, despite their...
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Cambridge Studies in Linguistics #93: Inflectional Morphology: A Theory of Paradigm Structure
by Gregory T. Stump Publisher Comments This book presents a formal framework for the analysis of word structure in human language....
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Read All About It
by Lori Howard Synopsis "A Cassette for each book contains clear, easy-to-understand recordings of all the readings in the text. "Read All About It 1 and "2 can be used as independent texts or with the support of "The Oxford Picture Dictionary. Themes in the readers correspond...
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Darwinism and the Linguistic Image: Language, Race, and Natural Theology in the Nineteenth Century
by Stephen G Alter Publisher Comments "A rich and rewarding account of the often subtle connections that bound the nineteenth-century sciences of language and life." -- British Journal of the History of...
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The Languages of Japan (Cambridge Language Surveys)
by Masayoshi Shibatani Publisher Comments This book surveys the two main indigenous languages of Japan, Japanese and Ainu. No genetic relationship has been established between them, and structurally they differ significantly. Shibatani has therefore divided his study into two independent parts...
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Linguistic Studies of Text and Discourse (Collected Works of M.A.K. Halliday)
by M. A. K. Halliday Publisher Comments For nearly half a century, Professor M. A. K. Halliday has been enriching the discipline of linguistics with his keen insights into the social semiotic phenomenon we call language. This ten-volume series presents the seminal works of Professor Halliday....
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Linguistic anthropology
by Nancy Parrott Hickerson Publisher Comments Intended for courses in Linguistics. This long-awaited revision of a best-selling classic text in the area of linguistic anthropology provides authoritative coverage of the origin of language and languages, the descriptive study of language, language...
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Language Teacher Education: The Reflective Trainer
by John Roberts Publisher Comments This book is an introduction to the training and development of language teachers. The author provides an overview of the theories of how trainees learn to teach, supported by case studies of various training programs and discussions of the fundamental...
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English Made Simple Revised Edition
by Arthur Waldhorn Publisher Comments For almost four decades, "Made Simple" books have set the standard for continuing education and home study. In answer to the changing needsof today's marketplace, the "Made Simple" series for the '90s presents a thoroughly up-to-the-minute portfolio of...
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Insensitive Semantics
by Herman Cappelen Publisher Comments Insensitive Semantics is an overview of and contribution to the debate about how to accommodate context sensitivity within a theory of human communication, investigating the effects of context on communicative interaction and, as a corollary, what a...
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Introduction To Language Development (2ND 06 Edition)
by Scott F. Mclaughlin Publisher Comments Introduction to Language Development, 2nd Edition, provides the essential terms, concepts, theories, and observations that define our understanding of language development. This text integrates the foundational elements of language development including...
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Concise History of the Language Sciences: From the Sumerians to the Cognitivists
by E. F. K. Koerner Publisher Comments This book presents in a single volume a comprehensive history of the language sciences, from ancient times through to the twentieth century. While there has been a concentration on those traditions that have the greatest international relevance, a...
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History of the English Language (5TH 02 Edition)
by Albert Croll Baugh Publisher Comments Comprehensive and balanced, this classic exploration of the history of the English language combines internal linguistic history and external cultural history -- from the Middle Ages to the present. Emphasis is on the political, social and cultural...
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Forensic Linguistics
by John Olsson Synopsis This second edition of John Olsson's practical introduction to Forensic Linguistics has been revised and updated throughout, to include new chapters on language in the justice system, forensic transcription, and expanded information on forensic phonetics....
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Globalization and Language Teaching
by David Block Publisher Comments In this book, renowned linguists David Block and Deborah Cameron and a host of contributors contemplate the issues that globalization raises for second language learning and teaching....
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