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Grammaticalization and language change in Chinese: a formal view
This innovative study on the phenomenon of 'grammaticalization' and its manifestation in Chinese provides new insights into language change in Chinese and a large number of grammatical topics. Grammaticalization occurs in all of the world's languages. Xiu-Zhi Zoe Wu demonstrates general linguistic principles present and active in the phenomenon of grammaticalization whilst also describing the m…
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- 9780203420645
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- Routledge Studies in Asian Linguistics
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- 415 XIU g
How mobile robots can self-organise a vocabulary
One of the hardest problems in science is the symbol grounding problem, a question that has intrigued philosophers and linguists for more than a century. With the rise of artificial intelligence, the question has become very actual, especially within the field of robotics. The problem is that an agent, be it a robot or a human, perceives the world in analogue signals. Yet humans have the abilit…
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- 9783946234005
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- XII, 271 p.
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- 402.85 VOG h
Language technologies for a multilingual Europe : TC3 III
This volume of the series “Translation and Multilingual Natural Language Processing” includes most of the papers presented at the Workshop “Language Technology for a Multilingual Europe”, held at the University of Hamburg on September 27, 2011 in the framework of the conference GSCL 2011 with the topic “Multilingual Resources and Multilingual Applications”, along with several additi…
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- 9783946234739
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- III, 208 p.
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- 418.020285635 LAN l
Interpreting and technology
Unlike other professions, the impact of information and communication technology on interpreting has been moderate so far. However, recent advances in the areas of remote, computer-assisted, and, most recently, machine interpreting, are gaining the interest of both researchers and practitioners. This volume aims at exploring key issues, approaches and challenges to the interplay of interpreting…
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- 9783961101610
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- 149 p.
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- Translation and Multilingual Natural Language Processing
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- 418.020285 INT i
Language vitalization through language documentation and description in the K…
This study on language vitalization and community empowerment in the Kosovar sign language community focuses on linguistic work taking place within the framework of a development co-operation project between two NGOs in Kosovo and Finland. The long-term objectives were to improve the status of Kosovar Sign Language (KosSL) and to guarantee the human (linguistic) rights of Deaf language users …
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- 9789086560004
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- IV, 138 p.
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- Ishara Research Series, 1
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- 400 HOY l
The Reconstruction of Proto-Malayo-Javanic
The work is concerned with the reconstruction of the phonemes of Proto-Malayo-Javanic, the last proto-language which is directly continued by the Sundanese, Javanese, Malay, and Madurese.
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- 9789004287044
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- xix, 317 p. ; maps ; 24 cm.
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- Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde ; 73
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- 499.222 NOT t
Creative multilingualism: a manifesto
"Multilingualism is integral to the human condition. Hinging on the concept of Creative Multilingualism – the idea that language diversity and creativity are mutually enriching – this timely and thought-provoking volume shows how the concept provides a matrix for experimentation with ideas, approaches and methods. The book presents four years of joint research on Creative Multilingualism co…
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- 9781783749317
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- ix, 325p.: ill.
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- 404.2 CRE c
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
Creating standards. Interactions with Arabic script in 12 manuscript cultures
Manuscript cultures based on Arabic script feature various tendencies in standardisation of orthography, script types and layout. Unlike previous studies, this book steps outside disciplinary and regional boundaries and provides a typological cross-cultural comparison of standardisation processes in twelve Arabic-influenced writing traditions where different cultures, languages and scripts inte…
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- 9783110639063
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- 336 p.; 22 cm
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- Studies in Manuscript Cultures; Volume 16
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- 492.7 CRE c
A Grammar of the Bedouin dialects of Central and Southern Sinai
After publishing A Grammar of the Bedouin Dialects of the Northern Sinai Littoral: Bridging the Linguistic Gap between the Eastern and Western Arab World (Brill:2000), Rudolf de Jong completes his description of the Bedouin dialects of the Sinai Desert of Egypt by adding the present volume. To facilitate direct comparison of all Sinai dialects, the dialect descriptions in both volumes run paral…
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- 9789004201019
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- xx, 440 pp. ; 22 cm
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- Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1 The Near and Middle; Volume: 101
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- 492.717 DEJ g
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