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  • The Oxford Handbook of Developmental Linguistics

    Edited by Jeffrey Lidz, William Snyder, Joe Pater ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    In this handbook, renowned scholars from a range of backgrounds provide a state of the art review of key developmental findings in language acquisition. The book places language acquisition phenomena in a richly linguistic and comparative context, highlighting the link between linguistic theory, language development, and theories of learning. The book is divided into six parts. Parts I and II ... Read more

    $49.99 CAD

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  • Foundations of Language

    Brain, Meaning, Grammar, Evolution

    by Ray Jackendoff ...
    How does human language work? How do we put ideas into words that others can understand? Can linguistics shed light on the way the brain operates? Foundations of Language puts linguistics back at the centre of the search to understand human consciousness. Ray Jackendoff begins by surveying the developments in linguistics over the years since Noam Chomsky's Aspects of the Theory of Syntax. He goes ... Read more

    $40.99 CAD

  • Figurative Language Comprehension

    Social and Cultural Influences

    Edited by Herbert L. Colston, Albert N. Katz ...
    Figurative language, such as verbal irony, metaphor, hyperbole, idioms, and other forms is an increasingly important subfield within the empirical study of language comprehension and use. Figurative Language Comprehension: Social and Cultural Influences is an edited scholarly book that ties together recent research concerning the social and cultural influences on figurative language cognition. ... Read more

    $117.99 CAD

  • Verb Sense Discovery in Mandarin Chinese—A Corpus based Knowledge-Intensive Approach

    by Jia-Fei Hong ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book applies linguistic analysis to the poetry of Emeritus Professor Edwin Thumboo, a Singaporean poet and leading figure in Commonwealth literature. The work explores how the poet combines grammar and metaphor to create meaning, making the reader aware of the linguistic resources developed by Thumboo as the basis for his unique technique.The author approaches the poems from a functional ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • Linguistic Structure in Language Processing

    Edited by G.N. Carlson, M.K. Tanenhaus ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    The papers in this volume are intended to exemplify the state of experimental psycho linguistics in the middle to later 1980s. Our over riding impression is that the field has come a long way since the earlier work of the 1950s and 1960s, and that the field has emerged with a renewed strength from a difficult period in the 1970s. Not only are the theoretical issues more sharply defined and ... Read more

    $256.99 CAD

  • Why We Gesture

    The Surprising Role of Hand Movements in Communication

    by David McNeill ...
    Gestures are fundamental to the way we communicate, yet our understanding of this communicative impulse is clouded by a number of ingrained assumptions. Are gestures merely ornamentation to speech? Are they simply an 'add-on' to spoken language? Why do we gesture? These and other questions are addressed in this fascinating book. McNeill explains that the common view of language and gesture as ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • Syntactic Parsing Strategies in Italian

    The Minimal Chain Principle

    by M. de Vincenzi ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)

    $179.99 CAD

  • Categorial Grammar

    Logical Syntax, Semantics, and Processing

    by Glyn Morrill ...
    This book provides a state-of-the-art introduction to categorial grammar, a type of formal grammar which analyses expressions as functions or according to a function-argument relationship. The book's focus is on linguistic, computational, and psycholinguistic aspects of logical categorial grammar, i.e. enriched Lambek Calculus. Glyn Morrill opens with the history and notation of Lambek Calculus ... Read more

    $67.99 CAD

  • Language Production, Cognition, and the Lexicon

    Edited by Núria Gala, Reinhard Rapp, Gemma Bel-Enguix ...
    Series series Computer Science (R0)
    The book collects contributions from well-established researchers at the interface between language and cognition. It provides an overview of the latest insights into this interdisciplinary field from the perspectives of natural language processing, computer science, psycholinguistics and cognitive science.One of the pioneers in cognitive natural language processing is Michael Zock, to whom this ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • German Sentence Processing

    Edited by B. Hemforth, L. Konieczny ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)

    $179.99 CAD

  • Learner Corpus Research

    New Perspectives and Applications

    by Professor Anthony McEnery, Dr Dana Gablasova ...
    Series series Corpus and Discourse
    This volume showcases original, agenda-setting studies in the field of learner corpus research of both spoken and written production. The studies have important applications for classroom pedagogy.The volume brings readers up-to-date with new written and spoken learner corpora, often looking at previously under-examined variables in learner corpus investigations. It also demonstrates innovative ... Read more

    $50.99 CAD

  • Contributions to Quantitative Linguistics

    Proceedings of the First International Conference on Quantitative Linguistics, QUALICO, Trier, 1991

    Edited by Reinhard Köhler, Burghard B. Rieger ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    QUALICO has been held for the first time as an international conference to demonstrate the state of the art in quantitative linguistics. This domain of language study and research is gaining considerable interest due to recent advances in linguistic modelling, particularly in computational linguistics, cognitive science, and developments in mathematics like modern systems theory. Progress in ... Read more

    $179.99 CAD