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by Tom Mcarthur  Publisher Comments The Concise Companion to the English Language is a language lover's dream. Tom McArthur unveils a thousand-page cornucopia covering virtually every aspect of the English language as well as language in general. He covers a variety of topics, from... (read more)  List Price $8.25 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
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by Kenneth R Bzoch Synopsis Kenneth R.Bzoch, Ph.D., the developer of the Reel-3 Scale, a test for early emergent speech and language, draws upon 31 actual detailed case studies of infants and toddlers learning to speak to illustrate how babies learn to talk. The backbone case study... (read more) List Price $17.50 Your price $11.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Peter Ludlow Publisher Comments Throughout the history of ideas, various branches of philosophy have spun off into the natural sciences, including physics, biology, and perhaps most recently, cognitive psychology. A central theme of this collection is that the philosophy of language... (read more) List Price $54.00 Your price $41.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Karen Ogulnick Publisher Comments This vivid collection explores the fascinating connections between language use, language learning, and one's cultural identity. The essays, many of them by well-known writers, represent a diversity of cultures, ages, and nationalities, making the wide... (read more) List Price $28.25 Your price $18.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Randy Allen Harris Publisher Comments This text is based on lectures given by the author at the advanced undergaraduate and graduate levels in Measure theory, Functional Analysis, Bannach Algebras, Spectral Theory (of bounded and unbounded operators), Semigroups of Operators, Probability and... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price $34.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Mike Davenport Publisher Comments This book examines some of the ways linguistics can express what native speakers know about the sound system of their language. Intended for the absolute beginner, it requires no previous background in linguistics, phonetics or phonology. Starting with a... (read more) List Price $42.25 Your price $27.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Jeannette D. Bragger Publisher Comments Improve your French conversation skills with DU TAC AU TAC: MANAGING CONVERSATIONS IN FRENCH with accompanying audio CD! The communicative strategies used in this French text help you reactivate, strengthen, and build upon what you already know so that... (read more) List Price $85.95 Your price $69.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Florian Coulmas Synopsis This book is an account of the writing systems of the world from earliest times to the present. Its aim is to explore the complex ways in which writing systems relate to the language they depict. Writing, Coulmas contends, is not only the guide or... (read more) List Price $52.95 Your price $40.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Friedrich Ungerer Publisher Comments Learning About Language is an exciting and ambitious series of introductions to fundamental topics in language, linguistics and related areas. The books are designed for students of linguistics and those who are studying language as part of a wider... (read more) List Price $70.50 Your price $40.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Jon Slack Publisher Comments The fast growing interdisciplinary research area of 'language and space' investigates how language and representations of space are linked in information processing systems, like the brain. This is the first book in a new series at the forefront of... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price $10.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Mildred L. Larson Publisher Comments Meaning-Based Translation is designed for training beginning translators and organized chapter by chapter as drill material for the textbook Meaning-Based Translation.... (read more) List Price $56.00 Your price $42.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Ishtla Singh Publisher Comments Pidgins and Creoles have always attracted a great deal of interest - academic and otherwise - but in recent decades they have become increasingly important as a field of linguistic inquiry. Placing pidgins and creoles in the wider setting of linguistic... (read more) List Price $65.00 Your price $13.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Barbara Johnstone Publisher Comments Qualitative Methods in Sociolinguistics is the only book on qualitative research methods designed especially for readers doing research on language and society. It provides a brief, accessible introduction to general theoretical and practical questions... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price $23.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Claire Lefebvre Publisher Comments An examination of creole genesis, showing how mechanisms from source languages show themselves in creole.... (read more) List Price $80.00 Your price $47.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Philip Carr Publisher Comments This volume is perfect for introductory level students of English phonetics and phonology. Presupposing no previous knowledge of either phonetics or phonology, it presents the subject with a minimum of technical terminology.... (read more) List Price $61.25 Your price $37.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by David G Lockwood Synopsis This book is designed to teach undergraduate and beginning graduate students how to understand, analyse and describe syntactic phenomena in different languages. The book covers every aspect of syntax from the basics to more specialised topics, such as... (read more) List Price $54.00 Your price $39.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Ilan Stavans Publisher Comments The whole of The Catcher in the Rye is in the Oxford English Dictionary, waiting to be unscrambled, and so are all the novels of our past, present, and immediate future en·thu·si·ast Function: noun : a person filled with enthusiasm : as a:... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Steven Brown Publisher Comments "Understanding Language Structure, Interaction, and Variation, Second Edition," provides an introduction to the study of language and applied linguistics for students who have had a minimum of exposure to the discipline of linguistics. Using clear, easy... (read more) List Price $28.50 Your price $22.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Noam Chomsky Publisher Comments Outstanding and unique contribution to the philosophical study of language and mind by Noam Chomsky.... (read more) List Price $85.00 Your price $54.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Ray Jackendoff Publisher Comments What is it about the human mind that accounts for the fact that we can speak and understand a language? Why can’t other creatures do the same? And what does this tell us about the rest of human abilities? Recent dramatic discoveries in linguistics... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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