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Theories of Case
Miriam Butt
Paperback - $80.95
Case, a system which marks the relationships between words in a sentence, is fundamental to every language. Looking at how different theories of syntax have accounted for the distribution of case across languages, this accessible textbook introduces ...
Phonology and Language Use
Joan Bybee
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Referencing new developments in cognitive and functional linguistics, phonetics, and connectionist modeling, this book investigates various ways in which a speaker/hearer's experience with language affects the representation of phonology. Rather than ...
Phonology and Language Use
Joan Bybee
Hardcover - $233.95
Referencing new developments in cognitive and functional linguistics, phonetics, and connectionist modeling, this book investigates various ways in which a speaker/hearer's experience with language affects the representation of phonology. Rather than ...
Historical Linguistics
Theodora Bynon
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Part I she establishes the theoretical framework by providing a systematic survey of the three main models of language development and in Part 2 turns to sociolinguistics and shows how changes within a language over a period of time, and changes brou ...
Cultural Studies in Foreign Language Education
Michael Byram
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Written by the winner of the 1987 BAAL book prize, this book deals with the acquisition of understanding of foreign cultures and peoples. It is also a study of the philosophy and purpose of language teaching in all its facets, in the context of forei ...
Educating for Advanced Foreign Language Capacities : Constructs, Curriculum, Instruction, Assessment
Heidi Byrnes
Paperback - $96.95
"The move to include advanced-level L2 learning and teaching in the study of SLA is not so much one of simple addition as it is one that requires a conceptual shift. The papers in this timely volume reduce the 'risk of [our] creating false certaintie ...
Learning Foreign and Second Languages : Perspectives in Research and Scholarship
Heidi Byrnes
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This inaugural volume in the MLA series Teaching Languages, Literatures, and Cultures provides an overview of second language acquisition research. Is language a system of linguistic forms to be acquired by the study of grammar, or is language a mean ...
Rethinking Linguistics
Pierre J. Cachia
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This book deals with the need to rethink the aims and methods of contemporary linguistics. Orthodox linguists' discussions of linguistic form fail to exemplify how language users become language makers. Integrationist theory is used here as a solutio ...