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Speech production and perception: learning and memory
Learning and memory processes are basic features of human existence. They allow us to (un)consciously adapt to changes in our social and physical environment in a variety of ways and may have been a precursor for survival in human evolution. Through several reviews and original work the book focuses on three key topics that enhanced our understanding of the topic in the last twenty years: first…
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- 9783631726914
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- Speech Production and Perception
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- 414 SPE s
The Politics of written language in the Arab world
The Politics of Written Language in the Arab World asks how the central sociolinguistic notions of language ideology and diglossia are affected by the rapidly increasing amount of writing in the Arabic vernacular. Readership: Readers interested in the Arabic language situation, language ideology, diglossia, and emerging writing practices
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- 9789004346178
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- 330 p.; 22 cm.
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- Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics; Volume: 90
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- 306.449 POL p
A tale of two dialect regions
This book traces the precise origin of the early English lexical and lexico-phonetic influences in Sranan, an English-based creole spoken in Suriname. Sranan contains "fossilised" linguistic remnants of an early English colonial period. The book discusses whether Sranan’s English influence(s) originated from a single dialect from the general London area, as proposed by Norval Smith in 1987, o…
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- 9783961101566
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- 417 SHE t
A typology of marked-S languages
Case-systems all over the world exhibit striking similarities. In most lan- guages intransitive subjects (S) receives less overt marking than one of the two transitive arguments (agent-like A or patient-like P); the other one of these two arguments is usually encoded by the same form as S. In some languages the amount of overt marking is identical between S, A, and P. But hardly ever does the S…
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- 9783944675190
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- XIII, 263 p.
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- Studies in Diversity Linguistics
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- 415 HAN t
Anaphora resolution and text retrieval. A Linguistic analysis of hypertexts
This book covers anaphora resolution for the English language from a linguistic and computational point of view. First, a definition of anaphors that applies to linguistics as well as information technology is given. On this foundation, all types of anaphors and their characteristics for English are outlined. To examine how frequent each type of anaphor is, a corpus of different hypertexts has …
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- 9783110416756
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- 318 p.; 22 cm
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- Empirische Linguistik / Empirical Linguistics, 3
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Corpus linguistics and 17th-century prostitution
Corpus linguistics has much to offer history, being as both disciplines engage so heavily in analysis of large amounts of textual material. This book demonstrates the opportunities for exploring corpus linguistics as a method in historiography and the humanities and social sciences more generally. Focusing on the topic of prostitution in 17th-century England, it shows how corpus methods can ass…
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- 9781472506092
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- 272 p.; 22 cm.
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- Research in Corpus and Discourse
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- 410.9 MCE c
Doing applied linguistics. Enabling transdisciplinary communication
How can students be empowered to communicate professionally – as translators, journalists and CCOs? How can professionals engaged in crucial language interactions do the same – pilots, nurses, lawyers and many others? This volume gives answers to these questions, providing insights into critical situations and good practices from many years of research and teaching in a practice-oriented, r…
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- 9783110496604
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- viii, 251 p.; 22 cm.
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- De Gruyter Collection
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- 418 DOI d
Sound structure and sound change: a modeling approach
Research in linguistics, as in most other scientific domains, is usually approached in a modular way – narrowing the domain of inquiry in order to allow for increased depth of study. This is necessary and productive for a topic as wide-ranging and complex as human language. However, precisely because language is a complex system, tied to perception, learning, memory, and social organization, …
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- 9783961101917
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- 412 MOR s
The Unicode cookbook for linguists: managing writing systems usingorthography…
This text is a practical guide for linguists, and programmers, who work with data in multilingual computational environments. We introduce the basic concepts needed to understand how writing systems and character encodings function, and how they work together at the intersection between the Unicode Standard and the International Phonetic Alphabet. Although these standards are often met with fru…
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- 978396110091
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- Translation and Multilingual NaturalLanguage Processing 10
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- 410 MOR u
Grammatical gender and linguistic complexity, Volume 1
The many facets of grammatical gender remain one of the most fruitful areas of linguistic research, and pose fascinating questions about the origins and development of complexity in language. The present work is a two-volume collection of 13 chapters on the topic of grammatical gender seen through the prism of linguistic complexity. The contributions discuss what counts as complex and/or simple…
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- 9783961101795
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- Studies in Diversity Linguistics
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- 410 GRA g
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