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The New Psychology of Language

Cognitive and Functional Approaches To Language Structure, Volume II

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Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2003

From the point of view of psychology and cognitive science, much of modern linguistics is too formal and mathematical to be of much use. The newly emerging approaches to language termed, "Functional and Cognitive Linguistics," however, are much less formally oriented. Instead, functional and cognitive...
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Idioms

Processing, Structure, and Interpretation

by Cristina Cacciari, Patrizia Tabossi
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014

"The book draws on a lot of research, is friendly to the reader, and will be of good value to teachers." Paul Nation, Victoria University of Wellington, Australia This comprehensive, up-to-date, and accessible text on idiom use, learning, and teaching approaches the topic with...
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Idioms

Structural and Psychological Perspectives

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Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014

Idioms have always aroused the curiosity of linguists and there is a long tradition in the study of idioms, especially within the fields of lexicology and lexicography. Without denying the importance of this tradition, this volume presents an overview of recent idiom research outside the immediate...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014

This volume presents current research findings on vital issues in language development compiled by an international group of leading researchers. The data are drawn from studies of the acquisition of Swedish, Polish, Serbo-Croatian, Hungarian, Portuguese, Italian, and English. Themes emphasized in...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013

This volume addresses salient theoretical issues concerning the validity of research methods in second-language acquisition, and provides critical analysis of contextualized versus sentence-level production approaches. The contributors present their views of competence versus performance, the nature...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2014

Much of the work currently conducted within the framework of Universal Grammar and language learnability focuses on the acquisition of syntax. However, the learnability issues are just as applicable to the domain of phonology. This volume is the first to gather research that assumes a sophisticated...
Cover of Meniere Man And The Butterfly. The Meniere Effect: How To Manage The Life Changing Effects Of Meniere's.
by Meniere Man
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2016

" HOW TO UNDERSTAND THE RIPPLE ON EFFECT OF MENIERE'S DISEASE. AND BE A MENIERE SURVIVOR.” The Author's personal 'solo-recovery' (without surgery) is a groundbreaking success story. But along with recovery, another catastrophe happened. He fought Meniere's and recovered his physical...
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by Dawn Ralph, Jacqui Rochester
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2016

Building Language using LEGO® Bricks is a flexible and powerful intervention tool designed to aid children with severe receptive and expressive language disorders, often related to autism and other special educational needs. This practical manual equips you for setting up and adapting your...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015

One of the liveliest forums for sharing psychological, linguistic, philosophical, and computer science perspectives on psycholinguistics has been the annual meeting of the CUNY Sentence Processing Conference. Documenting the state of the art in several important approaches to sentence processing,...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014

Since before the dawn of history, people have been telling stories to each other and to themselves. Thus stories are at the root of human experience. This volume describes empirical investigations by Jerome Bruner, Wallace Chafe, David Olson, and others on the relationship between stories and cognition....
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Beyond Names for Things

Young Children's Acquisition of Verbs

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Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014

Most research on children's lexical development has focused on their acquisition of names for concrete objects. This is the first edited volume to focus specifically on how children acquire their early verbs. Verbs are an especially important part of the early lexicon because of the role they play...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013

The International Review of Sign Linguistics -- which replaces the International Journal of Sign Linguistics -- is planned as an annual series publishing the most up-to-date scholarly work in all aspects of sign language linguistics. There is no other comparable publication. The international community...
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by Susan M. Gass
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2017

Twenty years after its first publication, Susan M. Gass’s Input, Interaction, and the Second Language Learner has become a classical text in the field of second language acquisition (SLA). This new printing includes the original text, along with a new preface that comprises individual consultations...
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The Linguistic Shaping of Thought

A Study in the Impact of Language on Thinking in China and the West

by A. H. Bloom, Alfred H. Bloom
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014

First published in 1981. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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