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Hypertext and Cognition (Hardcover): Jean-Francois Rouet, Jarmo J. Levonen, Andrew Dillon, Rand J. Spiro Hypertext and Cognition (Hardcover)
Jean-Francois Rouet, Jarmo J. Levonen, Andrew Dillon, Rand J. Spiro
R4,344 Discovery Miles 43 440 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The recent evolution of western societies has been characterized by an increasing emphasis on information and communication. As the amount of available information increases, however, the user -- worker, student, citizen -- faces a new problem: selecting and accessing relevant information. More than ever it is crucial to find efficient ways for users to interact with information systems in a way that prevents them from being overwhelmed or simply missing their targets. As a result, hypertext systems have been developed as a means of facilitating the interactions between readers and text. In hypertext, information is organized as a network in which nodes are text chunks (e.g., lists of items, paragraphs, pages) and links are relationships between the nodes (e.g., semantic associations, expansions, definitions, examples -- virtually any kind of relation that can be imagined between two text passages). Unfortunately, the many ways in which these hypertext interfaces can be designed has caused a complexity that extends far beyond the processing abilities of regular users. Therefore, it has become widely recognized that a more rational approach based on a thorough analysis of information users' needs, capacities, capabilities, and skills is needed. This volume seeks to meet that need.
From a user-centered perspective -- between systems and users -- this volume presents theoretical and empirical research on the cognitive processes involved in using hypertext. In so doing, it illustrates three main approaches to the design of hypertext systems:
*cognitive, which examines how users process multilayered hypertext structures;
*ergonomical, which explores how users interact with the design characteristics of hardware and software; and
*educational, which studies the learning objectives, frequency and duration of hypertext sessions, type of reading activity, and the user's learning characteristics.
This volume also tries to provide answers for the questions that have plagued hypertext research:
*What is hypertext good for?
*Who is hypertext good for?
*If it is useful for learning and instruction, then what type?
*What particular cognitive skills are needed to interact successfully with a hypertext system? Anyone interested in the fields of computer science, linguistics, psychology, education, and graphic design will find this volume intriguing, informative, and a definitive starting point for future research in the field of hypertext.

Biblical Exegesis of New Testament Greek - James (Hardcover): Craig Price Biblical Exegesis of New Testament Greek - James (Hardcover)
Craig Price
R1,238 R1,047 Discovery Miles 10 470 Save R191 (15%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Language Processing in Spanish (Hardcover): Manuel Carreiras, Jos E. Garca-Albea, NGBPria Sebasti n-Gall's, Jose E.... Language Processing in Spanish (Hardcover)
Manuel Carreiras, Jos E. Garca-Albea, NGBPria Sebasti n-Gall's, Jose E. Garcia-Albea, Nuria Sebastian-Galles
R4,518 Discovery Miles 45 180 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book presents a set of contributions to the current flow of psycholinguistic research, with new and challenging data gathered from Spanish that may illuminate issues about the generality of language processing models. Although it is possible to find a considerable amount of papers on psycholinguistic research with the Spanish language published in English-speaking journals, unfortunately, the scientific community does not have access to an overview of psycholinguistics in Spain. This book overcomes these limitations because it brings together state-of-the-art descriptions of the research and theory of the different subareas of psycholinguistics currently being studied in Spain. Spanish, the third most widely-used language in the world, differs from English in a number of important respects. Since English has been predominant in psycholinguistic research, contrasting properties of Spanish may help to test the generality of language processing mechanisms and to refine their description. The set of contrasting features considered in this book includes acoustical and syllabic transparency, shallow orthography, a much richer morphology, flexibility in word order, less variability in intonational contours, and the existence of null pronominal subjects for inflected verbs. There are also interesting contrasts in the frequency of different linguistic units, whose impact on language processing is also evaluated. One of the main lines of argument throughout this book deals with the tension between universality and variation as a way of characterizing the functioning of language capacities and processes. The variety of topics covered by this book ranges from one end of the spectrum of language related behavior to the other: speech perception, lexical access in word recognition, relations between phonological and orthographic representations, sentence processing, discourse comprehension, and language production. All chapters focus on questions of general interest within each topic, and in most cases they appeal to one particular feature of the Spanish language that is relevant for a given question. Most chapters show the indisputable importance of crosslinguistic research in psycholinguistics to improve understanding on whether universal cognitive mechanisms and language specific routines underlie the ability of understanding and producing language.

Selection among Alternates in Language Standardization - The Case of Albanian (Hardcover, Reprint 2010): Janet Byron Selection among Alternates in Language Standardization - The Case of Albanian (Hardcover, Reprint 2010)
Janet Byron
R3,337 Discovery Miles 33 370 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE SOCIOLOGY OF LANGUAGE brings to students, researchers and practitioners in all of the social and language-related sciences carefully selected book-length publications dealing with sociolinguistic theory, methods, findings and applications. It approaches the study of language in society in its broadest sense, as a truly international and interdisciplinary field in which various approaches, theoretical and empirical, supplement and complement each other. The series invites the attention of linguists, language teachers of all interests, sociologists, political scientists, anthropologists, historians etc. to the development of the sociology of language.

Idioms - Structural and Psychological Perspectives (Hardcover): Martin Everaert, Erik-Jan Van Der Linden, Andr Schenk, Rob... Idioms - Structural and Psychological Perspectives (Hardcover)
Martin Everaert, Erik-Jan Van Der Linden, Andr Schenk, Rob Schreuder, Robert Schreuder
R4,512 Discovery Miles 45 120 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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 domain of lexicology/lexicography. The chapters address the status of idioms in recent formal and experimental linguistic theorizing. Interdisciplinary in scope, the contributions are written by psycholinguists and theoretical and computational linguists who take mutual advantage of progress in all disciplines. Linguists supply the facts and analyses psycholinguists base their models and experiments on; psycholinguists in turn confront linguistic models with psycholinguistic findings. Computational linguists build natural language processing systems on the basis of models and frameworks provided by theoretical linguists and, sometimes psycholinguists, and set up large corpora to test linguistic hypotheses. Besides the fascination for idioms that make up such a large part of our knowledge of language, interdisciplinarity is one of the attractions of investigations in idiomatic language and language processing.

Bilingual New Testament, English - Spanish (Hardcover): Transcripture International Bilingual New Testament, English - Spanish (Hardcover)
Transcripture International; Edited by Transcripture International
R938 Discovery Miles 9 380 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The "Bilingual New Testament, English - Spanish" is derived from the 1901 American Standard Version and the 1909 Biblia Reina Valera translations.
Printed in 10-point text on white paper for easy reading, verses are paired in classic Biblical English and Spanish so you can follow both translations sentence by sentence.
Example verses:
John 3:16 "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth on him should not perish, but have eternal life."
Juan 3:16 "Porque de tal manera amo Dios al mundo, que ha dado a su Hijo unige nito, para que todo aquel que en e l cree, no se pierda, mas tenga vida eterna."
Matthew 28:18-20
"18. And Jesus came to them and spake unto them, saying, All authority hath been given unto me in heaven and on earth.
19. Go ye therefore, and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them into the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit:
20. teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I commanded you: and lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world."
Mateo 28:18-20
"18. Y llegando Jesu s, les hablo, diciendo: Toda potestad me es dada en el cielo y en la tierra.
19. Por tanto, id, y doctrinad a todos los Gentiles, bautiza ndolos en el nombre del Padre, y del Hijo, y del Espi ritu Santo:
20. Ensen a ndoles que guarden todas las cosas que os he mandado: y he aqui, yo estoy con vosotros todos los di as, hasta el fin del mundo. Ame n."
Note that the texts have been edited to allow pairing of verses which can result in some verse numbers that differ from other Bibles.
Contents:
Matthew - Mateo
Mark - Marcos
Luke - Lucas
John - Juan
Acts - Hechos
Romans - Romanos
I Corinthians - I Corintios
II Corinthians - II Corintios
Galatians - Ga latas
Ephesians - Efesios
Philippians - Filipenses
Colossians - Colosenses
I Thessalonians - I Tesalonicenses
II Thessalonians - II Tesalonicenses
I Timothy - I Timoteo
II Timothy - II Timoteo
Titus - Tito
Philemon - Filemo n
Hebrews - Hebreos
James - Santiago
I Peter - I Pedro
II Peter - II Pedro
I John - I Juan
II John - II Juan
III John - III Juan
Jude - Judas
Revelation - Apocalipsis

Second Language Learning Before Adulthood - Individual Differences in Children and Adolescents (Hardcover): Vanessa De Wilde,... Second Language Learning Before Adulthood - Individual Differences in Children and Adolescents (Hardcover)
Vanessa De Wilde, Claire Goriot
R4,327 Discovery Miles 43 270 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Researchers have looked into the role of individual differences in second language learning and found that differences between learners in areas such as language aptitude, language learning motivation and exposure to the language influence second language learning. Most of this research concerned adults. Far fewer studies have addressed the role of individual differences in second language learning of young learners. As second language learning programmes tend to start earlier than before and children are nowadays frequently exposed to a foreign language in social settings such as online games and social media, studying the role of individual differences in young learners can contribute both to SLA-theories and to evidence-based L2 education. This book discusses recent findings concerning the role of individual differences in language learning in young learners. The chapters in the book concern different topics linked to internal individual differences such as language aptitude, motivation, attitude and external individual differences such as exposure and type of instruction, the relative contribution of internal and external factors to language learning, and the interplay between the two types of individual differences.

Amsterdamer Beitrage zur alteren Germanistik, Band 68 (2011) (English, German, Paperback): Erika Langbroek, Arend Quak,... Amsterdamer Beitrage zur alteren Germanistik, Band 68 (2011) (English, German, Paperback)
Erika Langbroek, Arend Quak, Annelies Roeleveld
R2,873 Discovery Miles 28 730 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Japanese Sentence Processing (Hardcover): Reiko Mazuka, Noriko Nagai Japanese Sentence Processing (Hardcover)
Reiko Mazuka, Noriko Nagai
R4,516 Discovery Miles 45 160 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This volume is a direct result of the International Symposium on Japanese Sentence Processing held at Duke University. The symposium provided the first opportunity for researchers in three disciplinary areas from both Japan and the United States to participate in a conference where they could discuss issues concerning Japanese syntactic processing. The goals of the symposium were three-fold:
* to illuminate the mechanisms of Japanese sentence processing from the viewpoints of linguistics, psycholinguistics and computer science;
* to synthesize findings about the mechanisms of Japanese sentence processing by researchers in these three fields in Japan and the United States;
* to lay foundations for future interdisciplinary research in Japanese sentence processing, as well as international collaborations between researchers in Japan and the United States.
The chapters in this volume have been written from the points of view of three different disciplines, with various immediate objectives -- from building usable speech understanding systems to investigating the nature of competence grammars for natural languages. All of the papers share the long term goal of understanding the nature of human language processing mechanisms. The book is concerned with two central issues -- the universality of language processing mechanisms, and the nature of the relation between the components of linguistic knowledge and language processing. This volume demonstrates that interdisciplinary research can be fruitful, and provides groundwork for further research in Japanese sentence processing.

The State of Minority Languages (Hardcover): W. Fase, K Jaspaert, S.J. Kroon The State of Minority Languages (Hardcover)
W. Fase, K Jaspaert, S.J. Kroon
R2,798 Discovery Miles 27 980 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Many regional languages across the world are threatened by modernization and urbanization whilst the universal and rapid rise of migration has created new and unprecedented forms of multilingualism. Aspects of education, national policies and attitudes towards minority languages are documented.

Kingdom of Characters - The Language Revolution That Made China Modern (Paperback): Jing Tsu Kingdom of Characters - The Language Revolution That Made China Modern (Paperback)
Jing Tsu
R409 R382 Discovery Miles 3 820 Save R27 (7%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Historical Morphology (Hardcover, Reprint 2011): Jacek Fisiak Historical Morphology (Hardcover, Reprint 2011)
Jacek Fisiak
R3,958 Discovery Miles 39 580 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS is a series of books that open new perspectives in our understanding of language. The series publishes state-of-the-art work on core areas of linguistics across theoretical frameworks, as well as studies that provide new insights by approaching language from an interdisciplinary perspective. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS considers itself a forum for cutting-edge research based on solid empirical data on language in its various manifestations, including sign languages. It regards linguistic variation in its synchronic and diachronic dimensions as well as in its social contexts as important sources of insight for a better understanding of the design of linguistic systems and the ecology and evolution of language. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS publishes monographs and outstanding dissertations as well as edited volumes, which provide the opportunity to address controversial topics from different empirical and theoretical viewpoints. High quality standards are ensured through anonymous reviewing.

Perspectives on Sentence Processing (Hardcover): Lyn Frazier, Keith Rayner, Charles Clifton, Charles Clifton Jr Perspectives on Sentence Processing (Hardcover)
Lyn Frazier, Keith Rayner, Charles Clifton, Charles Clifton Jr
R1,221 Discovery Miles 12 210 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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, this volume consists of selected papers that had been presented at the Sixth CUNY Conference. The editors not only present the main themes that ran through the conference but also honor the breadth of the presentations from disciplines including linguistics, experimental psychology, and computer science. The variety of sentence processing topics examined includes:
* how evoked brain potentials reflect sentence comprehension
* how auditory words are processed
* how various sources of grammatical and nongrammatical information are coordinated and used
* how sentence processing and language acquisition might be related.
This distinctive volume not only presents the most exciting current work in sentence processing, but also places this research into the broader context of theorizing about it.

Focus on Grammar 1 Student Book with MyEnglishLab (Paperback, 4th edition): Irene E Schoenberg, Jay Maurer Focus on Grammar 1 Student Book with MyEnglishLab (Paperback, 4th edition)
Irene E Schoenberg, Jay Maurer
R2,395 Discovery Miles 23 950 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Building on the success of previous editions, Focus on Grammar 5th Edition continues to leverage its successful four-step approach that lets learners move from comprehension to communication within a clear and consistent structure. Centred on thematic instruction, Focus on Grammar combines comprehensive grammar coverage with abundant practice, critical thinking skills, and ongoing assessment, helping students communicate confidently, accurately, and fluently in everyday situations. The 5th Edition continues to incorporate the findings of corpus linguistics in grammar notes, charts, and practice activities, while never losing sight of what is pedagogically sound and useful.

Relating Events in Narrative - A Crosslinguistic Developmental Study (Hardcover): Ruth A. Berman, Dan Isaac Slobin Relating Events in Narrative - A Crosslinguistic Developmental Study (Hardcover)
Ruth A. Berman, Dan Isaac Slobin
R7,110 Discovery Miles 71 100 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This volume represents the culmination of an extensive research project that studied the development of linguistic form/function relations in narrative discourse. It is unique in the extent of data which it analyzes-more than 250 texts from children and adults speaking five different languages-and in its crosslinguistic, typological focus. It is the first book to address the issue of how the structural properties and rhetorical preferences of different native languages-English, German, Spanish, Hebrew, and Turkish-impinge on narrative abilities across different phases of development. The work of Berman and Slobin and their colleagues provides insight into the interplay between shared, possibly universal, patterns in the developing ability to create well-constructed, globally organized narratives among preschoolers Contact Susan Barker at (201) 258-2282 for more information. from three years of age compared with school children and adults, contrasted against the impact of typological and rhetorical features of particular native languages on how speakers express these abilities in the process of "relating events in narrative." This volume also makes a special contribution to the field of language acquisition and development by providing detailed analyses of how linguistic forms come to be used in the service of narrative functions, such as the expression of temporal relations of simultaneity and retrospection, perspective-taking on events, and textual connectivity. To present this information, the authors prepared in-depth analyses of a wide range of linguistic systems, including tense-aspect marking, passive and middle voice, locative and directional predications, connectivity markers,null subjects, and relative clause constructions. In contrast to most work in the field of language acquisition, this book focuses on developments in the use of these early forms in extended discourse-beyond the initial phase of early language development. The book offers a pioneering approach to the interactions between form and function in the development and use of language, from a typological linguistic perspective. The study is based on a large crosslinguistic corpus of narratives, elicited from preschool, school-age, and adult subjects. All of the narratives were elicited by the same picture storybook, Frog, Where Are You?, by Mercer Mayer. (An appendix lists related studies using the same storybook in 50 languages.) The findings illuminate both universal and language-specific patterns of development, providing new insights into questions of language and thought.

Reading, Writing and Dyslexia - A Cognitive Analysis (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition): Andrew W. Ellis Reading, Writing and Dyslexia - A Cognitive Analysis (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
Andrew W. Ellis
R860 Discovery Miles 8 600 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Research in cognitive psychology has contributed much to our understanding of reading and spelling. Most of this work has concentrated on the processes used by literate adults to comprehend and produce written language, but there is a growing interest in applying cognitive theories to the development of literacy, and to the understanfing of disorders of reading and writing. Such disorders may be acquired as a consequence of a brain injury to a previously literate adult, or may be developmental, occurring in otherwise normal children.; This textbook attempts to present this work to a non-specialist audience. Though written primarily with students of psychology and education in mind, it is accessible also to parents and teachers.; The broad organization of the first edition is retained. The book opens with a consideration of the history and nature of writing, then moves on to deal with the nature of skilled reading. Other chapters deal with: the different ways that brain injury in adulthood can disrupt the mature reading skill the "acquired dyslexias"; spelling and writing processes, both in skilled writers and in patients with "acquired dysgraphia"; the way children develop the skills of reading and writing; and developmental reading and writing problems.

On Our Mind - Salience, Context, and Figurative Language (Hardcover): Rachel Giora On Our Mind - Salience, Context, and Figurative Language (Hardcover)
Rachel Giora
R2,006 Discovery Miles 20 060 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

How do we learn to produce and comprehend non-literal language? Competing theories have only partially accounted for the variety of language comprehension evoked in metaphor, irony, and jokes. Rachel Giora has developed a novel and comprehensive theory, the Graded Salience Hypothesis, to explain figuative language comprehension. Giora contends that the salience of meanings (i.e., the cognitive priority we ascribe to words encoded in our mental lexicon) has the primary role in language comprehension and production.

Methods in Latin Computational Linguistics (Hardcover): Barbara McGillivray Methods in Latin Computational Linguistics (Hardcover)
Barbara McGillivray
R3,902 Discovery Miles 39 020 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

In Methods in Latin Computational Linguistics, Barbara McGillivray presents some of the most significant methodological foundations of the emerging field of Latin Computational Linguistics. The reader will find an overview of the computational resources and tools available for Latin and three corpus case studies covering morpho-syntactic and lexical-semantic aspects of Latin verb valency, as well as quantitative diachronic explorations of the argument realization of Latin prefixed verbs. The computational models and the multivariate data analysis techniques employed are explained with a detailed but accessible language. Barbara McGillivray convincingly shows the challenges and opportunities of combining computational methods and historical language data, and contributes to driving the technological change that is affecting Historical Linguistics and the Humanities.

Old English Runes - Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Approaches and Methodologies with a Concise and Selected Guide to... Old English Runes - Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Approaches and Methodologies with a Concise and Selected Guide to Terminologies (Hardcover)
Gaby Waxenberger, Kerstin Kazzazi, John Hines
R4,641 Discovery Miles 46 410 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This volume presents contributions to the conference Old English Runes Workshop, organised by the Eichstatt-Munchen Research Unit of the Academy project Runic Writing in the Germanic Languages (RuneS) and held at the Catholic University of Eichstatt-Ingolstadt in March 2012. The conference brought together experts working in an area broadly referred to as Runology. Scholars working with runic objects come from several different fields of specialisation, and the aim was to provide more mutual insight into the various methodologies and theoretical paradigms used in these different approaches to the study of runes or, in the present instance more specifically, runic inscriptions generally assigned to the English and/or the Frisian runic corpora. Success in that aim should automatically bring with it the reciprocal benefit of improving access to and understanding of the runic evidence, expanding and enhancing insights gained within such closely connected areas of study of the Early-Mediaeval past.

Language Development In Exceptional Circumstances (Paperback, New edition): Dorothy Bishop, K Mogford Language Development In Exceptional Circumstances (Paperback, New edition)
Dorothy Bishop, K Mogford
R1,451 Discovery Miles 14 510 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Ever since attempts were made to describe and explain normal language development, references to exceptional circumstances have been made. Variations in the conditions under which language is acquired can be regarded as natural experiments, which would not be feasible or ethical under normal circumstances. This can throw light on such questions as:
*What language input is necessary for the child to learn language?
*What is the relationship between cognition and language?
*How independent are different components of language function?
*Are there critical periods for language development?
*Can we specify necessary and sufficient conditions for language impairment? This book covers a range of exceptional circumstances including: extreme deprivation, twinship, visual and auditory impairments, autism and focal brain damage?
Written in a jargon-free style, and including a glossary of linguistic and medical terminology, the book assumes little specialist knowledge. This text is suitable for both students and practitioners in the fields of psycholinguistics, developmental and educational psychology, speech pathology, paediatrics and special education.

Accent, Rhythm and Meaning in French Verse (Hardcover): Roger Pensom Accent, Rhythm and Meaning in French Verse (Hardcover)
Roger Pensom
R2,383 Discovery Miles 23 830 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Vygotsky's Psychology-Philosophy - A Metaphor for Language Theory and Learning (Hardcover, 2001 ed.): Dorothy Robbins Vygotsky's Psychology-Philosophy - A Metaphor for Language Theory and Learning (Hardcover, 2001 ed.)
Dorothy Robbins
R2,735 Discovery Miles 27 350 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

This book is an introduction to Vygotsky and his theories of language and second language acquisition. Employing a dual framework of metatheory and metaphor, the author focuses on Vygotsky's cultural-historical perspective (contrasted with the sociocultural heritage more prevalent in the West) and its emphasis on history as change and thought as related to action. Included also is a comparison of Vygotskyan and Chomskyan theories of language and grammar.

An Historical Syntax of the English Language - Volume I: Syntactical Units with One Verb (Paperback): F. Th. Visser An Historical Syntax of the English Language - Volume I: Syntactical Units with One Verb (Paperback)
F. Th. Visser
R2,333 Discovery Miles 23 330 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

This reproduction of Visser's volumes is more than welcome, and timely, as the volumes have been out of print for quite some time and were sometimes a little bit difficult to navigate. Having a searchable and easy-to-use online version, although maybe not perfect, available now means a revival for scholarship that celebrates its fiftieth birthday without losing any of its relevance.

Lying and Insincerity (Hardcover): Andreas Stokke Lying and Insincerity (Hardcover)
Andreas Stokke
R2,344 Discovery Miles 23 440 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Andreas Stokke presents a comprehensive study of lying and insincere language use. He investigates how lying relates to other forms of insincerity and explores the kinds of attitudes that go with insincere uses of language. Part I develops an account of insincerity as a linguistic phenomenon. Stokke provides a detailed theory of the distinction between lying and speaking insincerely, and accounts for the relationship between lying and deceiving. A novel framework of assertion underpins the analysis of various kinds of insincere speech, including false implicature and forms of misleading with presuppositions, prosodic focus, and semantic incompleteness. Part II sets out the relationship between what is communicated and the speaker's attitudes. Stokke develops the view of insincerity as a shallow phenomenon that is dependent on conscious attitudes rather than deeper motivations. The various of ways of speaking while being indifferent toward what one communicates are covered, and the phenomenon of 'bullshitting' is distinguished from lying and other forms of insincerity. Finally, an account of insincere uses of interrogative, imperative, and exclamative utterances is also given.

The Phonology of Catalan (Hardcover, New): Max W. Wheeler The Phonology of Catalan (Hardcover, New)
Max W. Wheeler
R5,483 Discovery Miles 54 830 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This is the most comprehensive account of Catalan phonology ever published. Catalan is a Romance language, occupying a position somewhere between French, Spanish, and Italian. It is the first language of six and a half million people in the northeastern Spain and of the peoples of Andorra, French Catalonia, the Balearic Islands, and a small region of Sardinia. Dr Wheeler describes Barcelona pronunciation and the major varieties of western Catalonia, Valencia, and Majorca, and considers social and stylistic variation.
The author's approach is through a clear, pragmatic version of orthodox Optimality Theory and is informed by close attention to articulatory phonetics. He includes a substantial account of post-lexical (phrasal) phonology and has designed his approach to be of maximum use to those seeking either to understand the phonology and morphology of Catalan and its varieties or to set these within a comparative or typological perspective. After an introduction to the varieties of Catalan the author devotes chapters to segment inventories; syllable structure; phrasal phonology; coda voicing; coda place; cluster reduction; epenthesis; stress and prosody; word phonology and allomorphy; and the syllabification of pronominal clitics. The book is fully referenced and contains a comprehensive bibliography. It is likely to be the standard account of its subject for many years.

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