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Phonological and phonetic competence: between grammar, signal processing, and…
The present collection of articles brings together experimental work in the field of segmental and prosodic processing and representation in phonology and phonetics. Contributions focus on the exploration of human cognitive, articulatory, and perceptual abilities dealing with all types of phonetic and phonological entities. Main topics of investigation include: (1) sounds and sound-changing pro…
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- 9783847409373
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- 160 p.; 23 cm.
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- 415 DOM p
Interdisciplinary approaches to multilingualism
This research topic stems from the "Interdisciplinary Approaches to Multilingualism" conference, which was hosted by the Language Research Centre at the University of Calgary. It was the first conference of its kind, which brought together the work of researchers, educators, and policy makers in the areas of first and second language acquisition from psycholinguistic and pedagogical perspective…
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- 9782889195183
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- 89 p.; 23 cm.
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- 401.43 CUR i
Language-learner computer interactions : theory, methodology and CALL applica…
This book focuses on learner-computer interactions (LCI) in second language learning environments drawing largely on sociocultural theories of language development. It brings together a rich and varied range of theoretical discussions and applications in order to illustrate the way in which LCI can enrich our comprehension of technology-mediated communication, hence enhancing learners’ digita…
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- 9789027266989
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- xv, 257p. : ill.
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- 418.00785 LAN l
Uncertainty in deliberate lexical interventions: Exploring Esperanto speakers…
Language managers in their different forms (language planners, terminologists, professional neologists …) have long tried to intervene in the lexical usage of speakers, with various degrees of success: Some of their lexical items (partly) penetrate language use, others do not. Based on electronic networks of practice of the Esperanto speech community, Mélanie Maradan establishes the foundati…
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- 9783732992379
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- 373p.: ill.
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- 414 MAR u
Critical studies in Indian grammarians I : the theory of homogeneity (Savarnya)
In the historical study of the Indian grammarian tradition, a line of demarcation can often be drawn between the conformity of a system with the well-known grammar of Pa?ini and the explanatory effectiveness of that system. One element of Pa?ini’s grammar that scholars have sometimes struggled to bring across this line of demarcation is the theory of homogeneity, or savar?ya, which concerns t…
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- 9780472901708
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- XIII, 224 p.
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- Michigan Series In South And Southeast Asian Languages And Linguistics
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- 491.4 DES c
Introduction to old Javanese language and literature : a kawi prose anthology
The oldest and most extensive written language of Southeast Asia is Old Javanese, or Kawi. It is the oldest language in terms of written records, and the most extensive in the number and variety of its texts. Javanese literature has taken many forms. At various times, prose stories, sung poetry or other metrical types, chronicles, scientific, legal, and philosophical treatises, prayers, chants,…
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- 9780472902187
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- XII, 151 p.
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- Michigan Series In South And Southeast Asian Languages And Linguistics
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- 499.222 ZUR i
Roots of language
Roots of language was originally published in 1981 by Karoma Press (Ann Arbor). It was the first work to systematically develop a theory first suggested by Coelho in the late nineteenth century: that the creation of creole languages somehow reflected universal properties of language. The book also proposed that the same set of properties would be found to emerge in normal first-language acquisi…
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- 9783946234081
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- xiii, 284 p.; 22 cm.
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- Classics in Linguistics, 2
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- 401 BIC r
The lexeme indescriptive and theoretical morphology
After being dominant during about a century since its invention by Baudouin de Courtenay at the end of the nineteenth century, morpheme is more and more replaced by lexeme in contemporary descriptive and theoretical morphology. The notion of a lexeme is usually associated with the work of P. H. Matthews (1972, 1974), who characterizes it as a lexical entity abstracting over individual inflected…
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- 9783961101108
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- Empirically Oriented Theoretical Morphology and Syntax, 4
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- 415.92 LEX l
Cultures and traditions of wordplay and wordplay research
This volume focuses on realisations of wordplay in different cultures and social and historical contexts, and brings together various research traditions of approaching wordplay. Together with the volume DWP 7, it assembles selected papers presented at the interdisciplinary conference The Dynamics of Wordplay / La dynamique du jeu de mots (Trier, 2016) and stresses the inherent dynamicity of wo…
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- 9783110586374
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- VI, 294 p.
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- The Dynamics of Wordplay, 6
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- 401.41 CUL c
The history and cultural heritage of Chinese calligraphy, printing and librar…
In China the tradition of a book society is longer than anywhere else in the world. Chinese paper making, calligraphy and woodblock printing date from very early ages, but have for a very long time remained almost unknown to the Western world. At the IFLA satellite meeting “Chinese Written and Printed Cultural Heritage and Library Work” in Hangzhou in 2006 the richness of present day book h…
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- 9783598441790
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- 251 p.
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- IFLA Publications, 141
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- 495.1 HIS h
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