Search results for “[Subject: language]”

• Author(s): Maria del Pilar Garcia Mayo • Publisher: Multilingual Matters Limited • Publisher Imprint: Multilingual Matters Limited • BISAC: Linguistics - Psycholinguistics - GeneralThis book presents research on the learning of foreign language...

• Author(s): Norman Berdichevsky • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Linguistics - Sociolinguistics This study evaluates the importance of language in achieving a sense of national solidarity...

• Author(s): Philip Baldi • Publisher: Walter de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: Walter de Gruyter • BISAC: LatinThis volume provides an up-to-date account of the linguistic evolution of Latin, from its origins in the Proto-Indo-European ancestral l...

• Author(s): Mark Forsyth • Publisher: Berkley Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Berkley Publishing Group • BISAC: Linguistics - EtymologyThis perfect gift for readers, writers, and literature majors alike unearths the quirks of the English l...

• Author(s): Allyson Jule • Publisher: Multilingual Matters Limited • Publisher Imprint: Multilingual Matters Limited • BISAC: Women's StudiesIn this revised and updated 2nd edition of her pioneering textbook, Allyson Jule offers fresh insight in...

• Author(s): Dedre Gentner | Susan Goldin-Meadow • Publisher: MIT Press (MA) • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press (MA) • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThe idea that the language we speak influences the way we think has evoked perennial fascination and in...

• Author(s): Anne Cutler • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Linguistics - Psycholinguistics - GeneralAn argument that the way we listen to speech is shaped by our experience with our native language.Understanding speec...

• Author(s): John McWhorter • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: Linguistics - SemanticsA love letter to languages, celebrating their curiosities and smashing assumptions about correct gramm...

• Author(s): Maria Teresa Guasti • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: Bradford Books • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThe new edition of a comprehensive introduction to a rapidly developing field, combining developmental data with theory....

• Author(s): Morten H. Christiansen | Nick Chater | Peter W. Culicover • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Linguistics - Psycholinguistics - GeneralA work that reveals the profound links between the evolution, acquisiti...

• Author(s): Saúl Sibirsky | Martin C. Taylor • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Translating & Interpreting Language into Language, conceived as both a theoretical and a practical source...

• Author(s): Ezequiel A. Di Paolo | Elena Clare Cuffari | Hanne de Jaegher • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Cognitive Psychology & CognitionA novel theoretical framework for an embodied, non-representational appr...

• Author(s): Thomas G. Bever | John M. Carroll | Lance A. Miller • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThese essays by some of the most prominent figures in linguistics, artificial intelligence, and p...

• Author(s): S. -Y Kuroda • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralGenerative phonology, a comparatively recent development on the linguistic front, has stimulated a reconsideration of the conceptual sch...

• Author(s): C. L. Baker | John J. McCarthy • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThis collection of articles and associated discussion papers focuses on a problem that has attracted increasing attent...

• Author(s): James Pustejovsky • Publisher: Bradford Book • Publisher Imprint: Bradford Book • BISAC: Linguistics - SemanticsThe first formally elaborated theory of a generative approach to word meaning, The Generative Lexicon lays the foundation...

• Author(s): Ilse Lehiste • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThese concise lectures have been developed and refined over a period of ten years as the basis for the author's senior and first-year gr...

• Author(s): Joanna Rokita-Jaśkow | Melanie Ellis • Publisher: Multilingual Matters Limited • Publisher Imprint: Multilingual Matters Limited • BISAC: Study & TeachingThis book examines which factors lead to success in foreign language learni...

• Author(s): Walter J. Ong • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Linguistics - Historical & ComparativeLanguage in all its modes--oral, written, print, electronic--claims the central role...

• Author(s): James F. Kavanagh | Ignatius G. Mattingly • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralA collection of papers exploring why children acquire speech easily yet bog down when it comes to learning ...

• Author(s): June Casagrande • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: Grammar & PunctuationThe only fun, friendly, and surefire defense against the grammar snobs Having already made a name ...

• Author(s): Leonard Talmy • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralA proposal that a single linguistic/cognitive system, "targeting," underlies two domains of reference, anaphora (speech-internal) and d...

• Author(s): Michael Studdert-Kennedy • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: NeuroscienceWhat is language? Can we distinguish language from general cognition? Is language an isolable, biologically coherent system? Does the...

• Author(s): David W. Lightfoot • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralOver the past decade, generative grammarians have viewed language acquisition as a process of fixing option points or parameters d...

• Author(s): Thierry Poibeau • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • Subject: Computer Science and Information Technology • BISAC: Artificial Intelligence - Natural Language ProcessingA concise, nontechnical overview of the develo...

• Author(s): Sylvia Reinart • Publisher: de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralAwareness of the importance of technolects, or specialized languages, has increased substantially in the professional working world ...

• Author(s): Susumu Kuno • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: JapaneseConventional grammars tell us when we can use given grammatical patterns. However, they almost invariably fail to tell us when we cannot use them. Man...

• Author(s): Christine Kenneally • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: Life Sciences - EvolutionAn accessible exploration of a burgeoning new field: the incredible evolution of language The ...

• Author(s): Ramon Garcia Palayo y. Gross • Publisher: Signet Book • Publisher Imprint: Signet Book • BISAC: SpanishFrom the Back CoverOver 50,000 entries and 100,000 definitions. The largest, most up-to-date paperback dictionary available!Succin...

• Author(s): Leo Tolstoy • Publisher: MixGD • Publisher Imprint: MixGD • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: ClassicsPublished to coincide with the centenary of Tolstoy's death, here is an exciting new edition of one of the great literary works ...