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by Peter Ladefoged  Publisher Comments This superb introduction to phonetics, with an accompanying CD, is perfect for anyone who wants to learn about the sounds of language. Peter Ladefoged, one of the world's leading phoneticians, descibes how languages use a variety of different sounds... (read more)  List Price $34.95 Your price $27.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
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by Terence Odlin Publisher Comments The author shows how similarities and differences between languages can influence grammar, vocabulary, and pronunciation acquisition.... (read more) List Price $28.00 Your price $14.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Steven Pinker Publisher Comments The author of "The Language Instinct" and "How The Mind Works" ranges across a vast spectrum of topics by focussing on just regular and irregular verbs. "The Oliver Sacks of words" "Spectator". "Rightly called the only linguist who can write readable... (read more) Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by James Byrnes Publisher Comments "Language, Literacy, and Cognitive Development" addresses the impact of language and literacy on cognitive development. Top researchers examine the cognitive significance of the growth in children's ability to express themselves symbolically, whether... (read more) Your price $55.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Matthew Y Chen Publisher Comments Matthew Chen's landmark study offers the most comprehensive analysis to date of the rich and complex patterns of tone used in Chinese languages. Chinese has a wide repertoire of tones that undergo often surprising changes when they are connected in... (read more) List Price $80.00 Your price $55.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by David Nunan Publisher Comments This text is intended to help readers understand and critique research in language learning.... (read more) List Price $28.00 Your price $13.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Laurel J Brinton Publisher Comments Examines the ways in which lexicalization, a process of language change, has been presented in the literature.... (read more) List Price $34.99 Your price $31.40 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Howard Richler Publisher Comments Celebrating a language that is spoken by 1.6 billion people, this entertaining analysis explores the international growth of English and gives an in-depth examination of its history. Explaining the differences and... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $11.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Anthony Woods Publisher Comments This book demonstrates the contribution that statistics can and should make to linguistic studies. The range of work to which statistical analysis is applicable is vast: including, for example, language acquisition, language variation and many aspects of... (read more) List Price $43.00 Your price $21.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Geoffrey Barker Publisher Comments Intonation is increasingly becoming a central topic in understanding the phonology of spoken language. Geoffrey Barker gives a detailed account of the intonational structure of Tyrolean German, a South Bavarian dialect of German spoken in western Austria... (read more) Your price $26.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by James Paul Gee Publisher Comments Discourse analysis considers how language, both spoken and written, enacts social and cultural perspectives and identities. In this book, James Paul Gee introduces the field and presents his unique integrated approach to it.<BR>Assuming no prior... (read more) List Price $33.95 Your price $24.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Charles Barber Publisher Comments '\'A textbook survey of the English language, introducing the theoretical and technical concepts of historical linguistics.\''... (read more) List Price $17.99 Your price $12.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by David Crystal Publisher Comments No ordinary dictionary, David Crystal's "Dictionary of Language" includes not only descriptions of hundreds of languages literally from A to Z (Abkhaz to Zyryan) and definitions of literary and grammatical concepts, but also explanations of terms used in... (read more) List Price $17.50 Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Elizabeth Du Mcnair Publisher Comments Drawing on established research on the diversity of early American Englishes in the South as well as ongoing sociolinguistic investigation, this volume demonstrates how generational dialect changes are attributable to shifts in socioeconomic structure... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price $15.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Mark Steedman About the Author Mark Steedman is Professor of Cognitive Science in the Division of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh. He is the author of Surface Structure and Interpretation (MIT Press, 1996).... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price $10.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by M J Harper Publisher Comments "The most outrageous book I have ever read, and one of the funniest."-The Oldie "Unusual, funny, and provocative. . . . This fascinating book is a useful investigation into the ways in which history is constructed and the dangers of unassailable'academic... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price $14.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Cecil H Brown Publisher Comments Lexical acculturation refers to the accommodation of languages to new objects and concepts encountered as the result of culture contact. This unique study analyzes a survey of words for 77 items of European culture (e.g. chicken, horse, apple, rice... (read more) List Price $60.00 Your price $11.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Patricia A Keating Publisher Comments Phonological Structure and Phonetic Form brings together work from phonology, phonetics, speech science, electrical engineering, psycho- and sociolinguistics. The chapters are organized in four topical sections. The first is concerned with stress and... (read more) List Price $55.00 Your price $29.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Jean Aitchison Publisher Comments This alphabetical guide to language and mind gives an up-to-date introduction to the key topics of speech comprehension, speech production and child language. Written by a well-known author in the field, the entries are concise and lucid, and provide an... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $11.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Zdenek Salzmann Publisher Comments The third edition of Language, Culture, and Society continues to address the full spectrum of fundamental topics in linguistic anthropology. Because anthropology stresses a holistic view, the integration of data from all subfields of anthropology and... (read more) List Price $37.00 Your price $22.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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