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Metaphors We Live by
by George Lakoff
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The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature
by Steven Pinker
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With The Stuff of Thought, linguist Steven Pinker returns to the themes of language and human nature to examine how words express the workings of our minds. Dealing with many aspects of human cognitive and social evolution, Pinker demonstrates his... ( read more)
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Made in America
by Bill Bryson
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Bill Bryson, who gave glorious voice to The Mother Tongue, now celebrates her magnificent offspring in the book that reveals once and for all how a dusty western hamlet with neither woods nor holly came to be known as Hollywood...and exactly why Mr... ( read more)
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The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window Into Human Nature
by Steven Pinker
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This New York Times bestseller is an exciting and fearless investigation of language Bestselling author Steven Pinker possesses that rare combination of scientific aptitude and verbal eloquence that enables him to provide lucid explanations of deep and... ( read more)
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Child Language: Acquisition and Growth (Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics)
by Barbara Lust
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Exploring language development from birth, this accessible textbook introduces the field of child language acquisition, establishing key theoretical debates. It considers what characteristics of the human mind make it possible to acquire language and to... ( read more)
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North American Icelandic: The Life of a Language
by Bir Arnbjornsdottir
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North American Icelandic evolved mainly in Icelandic settlements in Manitoba and North Dakota and is the only version of Icelandic that is not spoken in Iceland. But North American Icelandic is a dying language with few left who speak it. North American... ( read more)
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Biting the Wax Tadpole: Confessions of a Language Fanatic
by Elizabeth Little
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"Charming anecdotes, witty sidebars, attractive illustrations.... Little’s strong sense of humor never overwhelms her love of languages in this fascinating yet educational introduction to linguistics for a wide, pop-savvy audience.&rdquo... ( read more)
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Human Language and Our Reptilian Brain: The Subcortical Bases of Speech, Syntax, and Thought (Perspectives in Cognitive Neuroscience)
by Philip Lieberman
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This book is an entry into the fierce current debate among psycholinguists, neuroscientists, and evolutionary theorists about the nature and origins of human language. A prominent neuroscientist here takes up the Darwinian case, using data seldom... ( read more)
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Studies in the Evolution of Language #6: Self-Organization in the Evolution of Speech
by Pierre Yves Oudeyer
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Oudeyer combines insights from neuroscience, evolutionary biology, and linguistics to explore questions about the origins of speech. He puts forward the startling proposal that speech can be spontaneously generated by the coupling of evolutionarily... ( read more)
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Is the Best Good Enough? Optimality and Competition in Syntax (Mit Working Papers in Linguistics)
by Pilar Barbosa
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Recent developments in linguistic theory have led to a reconsideration of the role of optimality in the overall architecture of the grammar. Emerging from this research is the idea that different components of the grammar interact to yield the best... ( read more)
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Language & Mind 3RD Edition
by Noam Chomsky
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Long-awaited third edition of Chomsky's outstanding essays on language and mind, with two additional chapters and a new preface.... ( read more)
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Developmental Clinical Psychology and Psychiatry #45: Language Impairment and Psychopathology in Infants, Children, and Adolescents
by Nancy J Cohen
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Language Impairment and Psychopathology in Infants, Children and Adolescents examines the remarkably high correlation between language impairment and a range of psychopathologic disorders in children and adolescence Nancy J. Cohen provides an... ( read more)
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The English Language (Oxford Language Classics)
by Robert Burchfield
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Here, Robert Burchfield, editor of the four-volume Supplement to the Oxford English Dictionary, offers a brief survey on the development of English. He expertly stresses the flexibility of the English language, tracing its ever-changing face from the 5th... ( read more)
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Redesigning English: New Texts, New Identities (English Language)
by Sharon Goodman
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The rapid development of communications technology is transforming the manner in which people communicate across time and space. In "English in a Postmodern World" the contributors examine both the ways in which the English language has adapted to new... ( read more)
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English Phonology: An Introduction (Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics)
by Heinz J Giegerich
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'This is an introduction to the phonology of present-day English. It deals principally with three varieties of English: \"General American,\" Southern British \"Received Pronunciation\" and \"Scottish Standard English.\" It offers a systematic and... ( read more)
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Neurolinguistics and Linguistic Aphasiology: An Introduction (Cambridge Studies in Speech Science & Communication)
by David Caplan
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This textbook provides the first up-to-date, comprehensive introduction to the emerging fields of neurolinguistics and linguistic aphasiology, Reflecting the dramatic changes that have taken place in the study of language disorders over the last decade... ( read more)
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Current Studies in Linguistics #35: Parasitic Gaps
by Peter Culicover
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This book offers a comprehensive survey of research on parasitic gaps, an intriguing syntactic phenomenon. The first section of the book contains a history of work on the topic and three fundamental previously published papers. The remaining three... ( read more)
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Modality & Structure in Signed & Spoken
by Richard P Meier
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The realization that signed languages are true languages is one of the great discoveries of the last 30 years of linguistic research. The work of many sign language researchers has revealed deep similarities between signed and spoken languages in their... ( read more)
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Linguistic Semantics: An Introduction
by John Lyons
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This successor to Language, Meaning and Context provides an invaluable introduction to linguistic semantics.... ( read more)
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Contemporary Linguistics an Introduction 4TH Edition
by William Ogrady
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Contemporary Linguistics offer integrated and comprehensive coverage of linguistics written by experts in the field -- from phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics to cross-curricular topics such as sociolinguistics and psycholinguistics and... ( read more)
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