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• 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): 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): Evangelia Adamou • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralA concise, accessible introduction to language endangerment and why it is one of the most urgent challenges of our times. 58% of the...

• Author(s): Derek Bickerton | Eors Szathmary • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralInterdisciplinary perspectives on the evolutionary and biological roots of syntax, describing current research on sy...

• Author(s): Marina Yaguello • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralAn exploration of the practice of inventing languages, from speaking in tongues to utopian schemes of universality to the discoveries...

• 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): Gita Martohardjono • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Linguistics - SyntaxExplorations of language development in different types of learner populations and across various languages. This volume examines l...

• 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...