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Total Pages : 296 pages
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Download or read book Poznań Studies in Contemporary Linguistics written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Poznań Studies in Contemporary Linguistics written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ndimele, Ozo-mekuri
Publisher : M & J Grand Orbit Communications
ISBN 13 : 9785416461
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (854 download)
Download or read book Studies in Nigerian Linguistics written by Ndimele, Ozo-mekuri and published by M & J Grand Orbit Communications. This book was released on 2016-09-13 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Studies in Nigerian Linguistics is a compilation of research papers on topical issues in Nigerian languages and linguistics covering three main areas of research, viz.: Language and Society, Applied Linguistics and Formal Linguistics. The papers in this volume are sectioned as such, even though there are bits of overlapping, especially for some of the papers contained in the first and second sections. The first fifteen (15) papers focus on the major theme of Language and Society in Nigeria. Many of the papers in this section address some peculiar sociolinguistic issues that affect the nation, including the nagging and lingering problem regarding the “language question” for the Nigerian nation even after five decades of the attainment of “Political Independence”, language and national development and language varieties. Section 2 contains papers in Applied Linguistics in its narrow and extended senses. There are papers on language teaching and learning, interference and intraference phenomena, language engineering (with focus on codification), communication disorders, and much more. The third section contains sixteen (16) papers in the core areas of linguistics, including phonology, morphology and syntax of Nigerian languages. Some of the papers address aspects of the phonological and morphosyntactic processes of deletion, affixation, cliticisation, causativisation, complementation, serialisation, agreement, and much more. The phrasal structure and pronominal systems of some languages were also discussed.
Author : Paula Orzechowska
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9811372993
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (113 download)
Download or read book Complexity in Polish Phonotactics written by Paula Orzechowska and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-04-23 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a refreshing perspective on the description, study and representation of consonant clusters in Polish. What are the sources of phonotactic complexity? What properties or principles motivate the phonological structure of initial and final consonant clusters? In answering these questions, a necessary turning point consists in investigating sequences of consonants at their most basic level, namely in terms of phonological features. The analysis is exploratory: it leads to discovering prevalent feature patterns in clusters from which new phonotactic generalizations are derived. A recurring theme in the book is that phonological features vary in weight depending on (1) their distribution in a cluster, (2) their position in a word, and (3) language domain. Positional feature weight reflects the relative importance of place, manner and voice features (e.g. coronal, dorsal, strident, continuant) in constructing cluster inventories, minimizing cognitive effort, facilitating production and triggering specific casual speech processes. Feature weights give rise to previously unidentified positional preferences. Rankings of features and preferences are a testing ground for principles of sonority, contrast, clarity of perception and ease of articulation. This volume addresses practitioners in the field seeking new methods of phonotactic modelling and approaches to complexity, as well as students interested in an overview of current research directions in the study of consonant clusters. Sequences of consonants in Polish are certainly among the most remarkable ones that readers will ever encounter in their linguistic explorations. In this volume, they will come to realise that hundreds of unusually long, odd-looking, sonority-violating, morphologically complex and infrequent clusters are in fact well-motivated and structured according to well-defined tactic patterns of features.
Author : Engin Arik
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443864293
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)
Download or read book Current Directions in Turkish Sign Language Research written by Engin Arik and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2014-07-18 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book aims to contribute to our knowledge of Turkish Sign Language (TİD), and sign language linguistics in general. TİD is a relatively old signed language, and is, at present, believed to be historically unrelated to other signed languages. Linguistic studies on this language started in the early 2000s. There has been growing academic interest and an increasing body of work on TİD within the past decade, enhancing the need for this this book, which brings together chapters covering a variety of topics, such as the history of deaf education and TİD, issues regarding language documentation, a phonological study of fingerspelling, reciprocals, interrogatives, reported utterances, expressions of spatial relations including their acquisitions, and expressions of multiple entities. This book was supported in part by the TÜBİTAK Research Fund, Project No. 111K314. This edited volume serves as a useful resource for newcomers to the field, gives new momentum to future research on TİD, and offers unique perspectives in investigating sign languages in general. Finally, the intention is that the conversations within this volume will open up new discussions not only within sign linguistics, but also in other related fields such as cognitive science.
Author : Paul Baker
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1441181334
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)
Download or read book Contemporary Corpus Linguistics written by Paul Baker and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2012-03-15 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Acts as a one-volume resource, providing an introduction to every aspect of corpus linguistics as it is being used at the moment.
Author : Maria Bloch-Trojnar
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 1501505432
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (15 download)
Download or read book Aspect and Valency in Nominals written by Maria Bloch-Trojnar and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2017-05-22 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contributes to the recent theoretical developments in the area of mutual interactions of valency and aspect, as expressed in different types of verb-related nominal structures (nominalizations and synthetic compounds). A wide range of data from Slavic, Hellenic, Germanic, Romance and Semitic languages provides an empirical testing ground for competing theoretical explanations couched in the lexicalist and construction-based frameworks.
Author : Bob de Jonge
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 902721574X
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)
Download or read book Linguistic Theory and Empirical Evidence written by Bob de Jonge and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2011 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume further elaborates the empirical tradition of Columbia School (CS) Linguistics by offering diverse empirical analyses for a wide variety of languages. These studies open a much needed debate advocating the necessity of the independent validation of linguistic hypotheses. This research exemplifies how such a validation should be conducted by determining which forms underlie the analyses and extracting those observations that are considered to be objective. The volume consists of two parts: a section on synchronic and diachronic grammatical problems and a section on Phonology as Human Behavior (PHB), the Columbia School version of phonology, applied to evolutionary, developmental and clinical issues and the phonotactics of the selected lexicon of a literary text. It provides a wealth of useful empirical data and in-depth and sophisticated qualitative and quantitative analyses of a broad range of languages from diverse families: French, Spanish, Afrikaans, Dutch, English, Polish, Russian, Japanese, and Hebrew.
Author : John Mathieson Anderson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199608334
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (996 download)
Download or read book The Substance of Language Volume III: Phonology-Syntax Analogies written by John Mathieson Anderson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-10-20 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Phonology-Syntax Analogies looks at the degree to which analogies between syntax and phonology result from their being representational subsystems within the overall system of language, at why they sometimes break down, and at how far semantic and phonetic properties limit such analogies.
Author : Hans Henrich Hock
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110423383
Total Pages : 927 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (14 download)
Download or read book The Languages and Linguistics of South Asia written by Hans Henrich Hock and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2016-05-24 with total page 927 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With nearly a quarter of the world’s population, members of at least five major language families plus several putative language isolates, South Asia is a fascinating arena for linguistic investigations, whether comparative-historical linguistics, studies of language contact and multilingualism, or general linguistic theory. This volume provides a state-of-the-art survey of linguistic research on the languages of South Asia, with contributions by well-known experts. Focus is both on what has been accomplished so far and on what remains unresolved or controversial and hence offers challenges for future research. In addition to covering the languages, their histories, and their genetic classification, as well as phonetics/phonology, morphology, syntax, and sociolinguistics, the volume provides special coverage of contact and convergence, indigenous South Asian grammatical traditions, applications of modern technology to South Asian languages, and South Asian writing systems. An appendix offers a classified listing of major sources and resources, both digital/online and printed.
Author : Donald Kuiken
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110644789
Total Pages : 707 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)
Download or read book Handbook of Empirical Literary Studies written by Donald Kuiken and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2021-09-20 with total page 707 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook reviews efforts to increase the use of empirical methods in studies of the aesthetic and social effects of literary reading. The reviewed research is expansive, including extension of familiar theoretical models to novel domains (e.g., educational settings); enlarging empirical efforts within under-represented research areas (e.g., child development); and broadening the range of applicable quantitative and qualitative methods (e.g., computational stylistics; phenomenological methods). Especially challenging is articulation of the subtle aesthetic and social effects of literary artefacts (e.g., poetry, film). Increasingly, the complexity of these effects is addressed in multi-variate studies, including confirmatory factor analysis and structural equation modeling. While each chapter touches upon the historical background of a specific research topic, two chapters address the area’s historical background and guiding philosophical assumptions. Taken together, the material in this volume provides a systematic introduction to the area for early career professionals, while challenging active researchers to develop theoretical frameworks and empirical procedures that match the complexity of their research objectives.
Author : Eugeniusz Cyran
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 1614515131
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (145 download)
Download or read book Between Phonology and Phonetics written by Eugeniusz Cyran and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2014-05-26 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For decades, the voicing system of Polish has been at the center of a heated theoretical debate concerning laryngeal phonology as it features a number of phenomena that constitute the core of this debate, such as Final Obstruent Devoicing, Regressive Voice Assimilation, and Progressive Voice Assimilation. As research into laryngeal phonology progresses on various fronts, it becomes more obvious that a large portion of the phenomena in question have phonetic or implementational conditioning, thus limiting the role of phonology even further. The model presented here is one in which phonology, phonetic interpretation, and phonetics find their respective homes. Paradoxically, by separating these three levels of description, we wish to integrate the disparate threads of modern research of sound patterns into one sound system.
Author : Przemysław Tajsner
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9783631579558
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (795 download)
Download or read book Aspects of the Grammar of Focus written by Przemysław Tajsner and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2008 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book examines the aspects of focus within the recent minimalist paradigm. Focus is viewed here as a grammar's response to the requirements of the systems external to (narrowly defined) language. Thus, the properties of focus are explored at the two interfaces: syntax-phonology and syntax-semantics. The book surveys some recent views on the interface and left-periphery status of focus. With respect to the semantics of focus, the book argues for its tripartite division into: information, non-exhaustive identification, and exhaustive identification. It further contains a proposal of the phase-based derivation of sentences featuring focus in English, and finally, offers an account of Polish, in which focus interestingly correlates with the phenomenon of scrambling.
Author : John Mathieson Anderson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199608318
Total Pages : 447 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (996 download)
Download or read book The Substance of Language Volume I: The Domain of Syntax written by John Mathieson Anderson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-10-20 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Domain of Syntax explores the consequences for syntax of assuming that language is grounded in cognition and perception. He considers whether this permits a lexicalist approach to syntax that would allow it to dispense not only with structural mutations but with universal grammar itself.
Author : John W. Schwieter
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108960502
Total Pages : 1211 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (89 download)
Download or read book The Cambridge Handbook of Working Memory and Language written by John W. Schwieter and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-07-21 with total page 1211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together cutting-edge research, this Handbook is the first comprehensive text to examine the pivotal role of working memory in first and second language acquisition, processing, impairments, and training. Authored by a stellar cast of distinguished scholars from around the world, the Handbook provides authoritative insights on work from diverse, multi-disciplinary perspectives, and introduces key models of working memory in relation to language. Following an introductory chapter by working memory pioneer Alan Baddeley, the collection is organized into thematic sections that discuss working memory in relation to: Theoretical models and measures; Linguistic theories and frameworks; First language processing; Bilingual acquisition and processing; and Language disorders, interventions, and instruction. The Handbook is sure to interest and benefit researchers, clinicians, speech therapists, and advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students in linguistics, psychology, education, speech therapy, cognitive science, and neuroscience, or anyone seeking to learn more about language, cognition and the human mind.
Author : Peter Trudgill
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781588114037
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (14 download)
Download or read book Social Dialectology written by Peter Trudgill and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection identifies the main theoretical and methodological issues currently preoccupying researchers in social dialectology, drawing not only on variation in English in the UK, USA, New Zealand, Europe and elsewhere but also in Arabic, Greek, Norwegian and Spanish dialects. The volume brings together previously unpublished work by the world's most prolific and well-respected social dialectologists as well as by some younger, dynamic researchers. Together the authors provide new perspectives on both the traditional areas of sociolinguistic variation and change and the newer fields of dialect formation, dialect diffusion and dialect levelling.
Author : Dylan Glynn
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027270333
Total Pages : 555 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)
Download or read book Corpus Methods for Semantics written by Dylan Glynn and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2014-11-06 with total page 555 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume seeks to advance and popularise the use of corpus-driven quantitative methods in the study of semantics. The first part presents state-of-the-art research in polysemy and synonymy from a Cognitive Linguistic perspective. The second part presents and explains in a didactic manner each of the statistical techniques used in the first part of the volume. A handbook both for linguists working with statistics in corpus research and for linguists in the fields of polysemy and synonymy.
