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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 Theodora Bynon Publisher Comments 'Designed primarily as a textbook for linguistics and philology students, this book will also be of interest to those studying English language, classics and modern languages.'... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price $9.71 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Shelby Rice Publisher Comments New Horizons. A fascinating study of writing, alphabets and scripts from the cuneiform of 4,000 BC to modern typographical techniques.... (read more) Your price $5.95 (Used - Mass Market) check for new and sale copies
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by Rosalind Thornton Publisher Comments This is the first experimental study of Principle B with verb phrase ellipsis and properties of the interpretation of empty pronouns in ellipsis.... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price $8.98 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Morris Halle Synopsis A diverse collection of papers centering around the question of how linguistic information is acquired, represented, and used.... (read more) Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by M. E. Kropp Dakubu Publisher Comments The purpose of this book is to provide an easily accessible handbook of current knowledge about the languages of Ghana, their geographical distribution, their relationships with each other, the social patterns of their use, and their structures.... (read more) Your price $12.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Suzette Haden Elgin Publisher Comments Many of us view language as a tool, a means by which to communicate our thoughts and emotions. But is there more to language than just "talk"? Can learning languages actually change the way you think? In The Language Imperative, best-selling author and... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price $5.25 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by John Lyons Publisher Comments This is a comprehensive introduction to theoretical linguistics. It presupposes no previous knowledge and terms are defined as they are introduced; but it gives a rigorous and technical treatment of a wide range of topics, and brings the reader to an... (read more) List Price $52.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Karol Janicki Publisher Comments Linguistics is important. An understanding of linguistic principles is as essential to the layperson as it is to the language scholar. Using concrete examples from politics, law, and education, this book shows how people misconceive language every day... (read more) List Price $22.50 Your price $19.95 (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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by Andrew Carnie Synopsis This book provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the major issues in syntactic theory, including phrase structure, the lexicon, case theory, movement, and locality conditions.Written primarily in the Principles and Parameters framework... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price $15.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Steven Fischer Publisher Comments It is tempting to take the tremendous rate of contemporary linguistic change for granted. What is required, in fact, is a radical reinterpretation of what language is. Steven Roger Fischer begins his book with an examination of the modes of communication... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price $19.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Victor Stevenson Publisher Comments Did you know that when you call someone a "pal" you're using a word derived from Romany, the gypsy tongue (phal, or brother)? Or that "cosmonaut" has its origins in ancient Greek? Remnants of the past live on in our words, grammar, and pronunciation... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price $12.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Gerald Carr Book News Annotation Former students and admirers of Irmengard Rauch present this festschrift honoring both her pedagogical skills and scholarship in the field of Germanic linguistics and the interdigitation of linguistics with semiotics. The volume collects 69... (read more) Your price $20.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Carstairs-mccarthy Publisher Comments This book proposes a new theory of the origins of human language ability and presents an original account of the early evolution of language. It explains why humans are the only language-using animals, challenges the assumption that language is a... (read more) List Price $282.00 Your price $17.60 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Ronald Wardhaugh Publisher Comments Since it first appeared more than fifteen years ago, Ronald Wardhaugh's An Introduction to Sociolinguistics has been an immensely popular textbook for courses in sociolinguistics and the sociology of language. Provides an accessible, comprehensive... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price $17.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Jerry H Gill Publisher Comments In this book, a philosopher combines these famous cases with a lifetime of study to examine the threshold of language-that point' between speech and not quite speech.' He provides fascinating accounts of the deaf and blind Helen Keller, of chimpanzees... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Frederick Newmeyer Publisher Comments Linguistics: The Cambridge Survey is a comprehensive introduction to current research in all branches of the field of linguistics, from syntactic theory to ethnography of speaking, from signed language to the mental lexicon, from language acquisition to... (read more) List Price $95.00 Your price $5.75 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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