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Computers and Human Language by George W Smith Publisher Comments Offering an inquiry into the nature of language from the perspective of computing, Computers and Human Language synthesizes recent research in linguistics, computer science, and experimental psychology as it explores the major computational approaches to... (read more) List Price $37.95 Your price $17.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list CSLI Lecture Notes #148: Generative Approaches to Finnic and Saami Linguistics by Diane Nelson Publisher Comments With unusual structural characteristics, Finnish and Saami offer interesting challenges to linguistic theories formulated around more popular languages. Grammatically, for instance, languages in the Finnic and Saami group utilize extensive systems of... (read more) Your price $30.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Philosophers and Their Critics #10: Chomsky and His Critics by Louise M Antony Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [329]-332) and index.... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price $24.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list General Linguistics Introductory Sur 4TH Edition by R H Robins Synopsis This fourth edition seeks to cover recent developments in linguistic theory while continuing to provide an introductory survey of the whole range of general linguistic studies. It is aimed at both students and the interested general reader.... (read more) List Price $31.40 Your price $16.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Language & Mind 3RD Edition by Noam Chomsky Publisher Comments Long-awaited third edition of Chomsky's outstanding essays on language and mind, with two additional chapters and a new preface.... (read more) List Price $26.99 Your price $14.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Science Times Book of Language and Linguistics by Nicholas Wade Publisher Comments Z99 detailed illustrations editor Nicholas Wade and the award-winning Science Times journalists explore the mysterious roots of... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $16.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Structure of Tone by Zhiming Bao Publisher Comments This book argues a fresh theory about the structure of tone. Bao investigates a wide range of tone sandhi data from various Chinese dialects and other Asian tone languages, providing empirical support for his proposal that tone is a formal entity which... (read more) List Price $65.00 Your price $15.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Language: An Introduction to the Study of Speech by Edward Sapir Publisher Comments Originally published in 1921, this classic is still regarded as one of the clearest, most comprehensive descriptions of language for the general reader. Index.... (read more) List Price $9.00 Your price $4.95 (Used - Mass Market) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Introducing Linguistics #3: Discourse Analysis by Barbara Johnstone Publisher Comments Discourse Analysis is an ideal textbook for students taking a first course in linguistic approaches to discourse.... (read more) Your price $35.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list A Short History of Structural Linguistics by Peter Matthews Publisher Comments A concise historical survey of structural lingustics, charting its development from the 1870s to the 1990s.... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price $18.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

Sign up for our Recently Arrived Used Books newsletter service and find great used titles in Linguistics on the very day they're added to our shelves. email address   Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics #5: Telling Our Selves: Ethnicity and Discourse in Southwestern Alaska by Chase Hensel Publisher Comments In this book, Chase Hensel examines how Yup'ik Eskimos and non-natives construct and maintain gender and ethnic identities through strategic talk about hunting, fishing, and processing.... (read more) List Price $65.00 Your price $7.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list M.I.T. Press Paperback Series #5: Language, Thought, and Reality: Selected Writings by Benjamin Lee Whorf Publisher Comments 'The hypothesis suggested by Benjamin Lee Whorf that the structure of a person's language is a factor in the way in which he understands reality and behaves with respect to it has attracted the attention of linguists, anthropologists, psychologists, and... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price $18.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Syntactic Theory and the Acquisition of English Syntax: The Nature of Early Child Grammars of English by Andrew Radford Publisher Comments Drawing data from a corpus of more that 100,000 spontaneous utterances, Andrew Radford demonstrates that the fundamental characteristic of children's earliest structures is that they are essentially lexical and thematic in nature.... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price $18.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Linguistic Individual: Self-Expression in Language and Linguistics (Oxford Studies in Sociolinguistics) by Barbara Johnstone Publisher Comments Linguists usually discuss language or dialects in terms of groups of speakers. Believing that patterns can be seen more clearly in the group than the individual, researchers often present group scores with no indication of the variation within the group.... (read more) List Price $68.00 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Rise and Fall of Languages by R M W Dixon Publisher Comments A different approach to the theories on language evolution and change.... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price $12.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Introducing Transformational Grammar: From Rules to Principles & Parameters by Jamal Ouhalla Publisher Comments This key textbook introduces students with no previous linguistic training to the theory and analysis of transformational grammar. It covers the most up-to-date developments, including Principles and Parameters theory, and also traces the major shifts of... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $12.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list How the Brain Evolved Language by Donald Loritz Publisher Comments How can an infinite number of sentences be generated from one human mind? How did language evolve in apes? In this book Donald Loritz addresses these and other fundamental and vexing questions about language, cognition, and the human brain. He starts by... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price $15.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Generative and Non-Linear Phonology (Longman Linguistics Library) by Jacques Durand Synopsis This book is part of a series intended for students at undergraduate and postgraduate level and aims to provide a broad view of the linguistics field such as is hard to obtain exclusively from scholarly journals.... (read more) List Price $27.80 Your price $18.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Language Creation and Language Change: Creolization, Diachrony, and Development (Learning, Development, & Conceptual Change) by Michel Degraff Publisher Comments This text is organized into five parts: creolization and acquisition; acquisition under exceptional circumstances; language processing and syntactic change; parameter setting in acquisition and through creolization and language change; and a concluding... (read more) List Price $65.00 Your price $20.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Music of Everyday Speech: Prosody and Discourse Analysis by Ann K Wennerstrom Publisher Comments Recently there has been a growing interest among discourse analysts in incorporating prosody into the analysis of spoken language. Wennerstrom considers the role of prosody in a variety of discourse genres and offers an over-all framework within which... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price $20.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

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