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This book provides an overview of pronunciation teaching and learning practices in secondary schools, providing insights into secondary school learners' needs, expectations and motivation regarding the importance of learning English and particularly English...
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Springer
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2019-03-21
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This handbook deals with research into the nature of events, and how we use language to describe events.
The study of event structure over the past 60 years has been one of the most successful areas of lexical semantics, uniting insights from morphology and syntax,...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-03-21
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This book explores the syntactic structures of Mainland Scandinavian, a term that covers the Northern Germanic languages spoken in Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and parts of Finland. The continuum of mutually intelligible standard languages, regional varieties, and dialects...
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OUP Oxford
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2019-03-21
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A guide that offers a step-by-step process to data-driven qualitative multimodal discourse analysis Systematically Working with Multimodal Data is a hands-on guide that is theoretically grounded and offers a step-by-step process to clearly show how to do a data-driven...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2019-03-20
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This handbook is the first to explore the growing field of experimental semantics and pragmatics. In the past 20 years, experimental data has become a major source of evidence for building theories of language meaning and use, encompassing a wide range of topics and...
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OUP Oxford
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2019-03-19
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This handbook is the first to explore the growing field of experimental semantics and pragmatics. In the past 20 years, experimental data has become a major source of evidence for building theories of language meaning and use, encompassing a wide range of topics and...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-03-19
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This volume presents novel analyses of morphosyntax and phonology by well-known scholars in their respective fields. The book offers chapters on a range of Romance languages and dialects, including Canadian French, Standard French, Modern French, Sardinian, Sicilian,...
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Springer
Parution :
2019-03-18
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Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory
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The definitive guide to 21st century investigations of multilingual neuroscienceThe Handbook of the Neuroscience of Multilingualism provides a comprehensive survey of neurocognitive investigations of multiple-language speakers. Prominent scholar John W. Schwieter offers...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2019-03-13
Collection :
Blackwell Handbooks in Linguistics
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“In his latest book, Mackenzie marries grammatical theory and quantitative methods to make significant advances in the analysis of a range of syntactic phenomena in Old Spanish. Alongside meticulous corpus-based empirical work, he critically engages with recent concepts...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-03-09
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This book explains how the grammarians of the Graeco-Romance world perceived the nature and structure of the languages they taught. The volume focuses primarily on the early centuries AD, a time when the Roman Empire was at its peak; in this period, a grammarian not...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-03-05
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Reformulation and Acquisition of Linguistic Complexity proposes a new answer to the question of the appropriation or acquisition of a mother tongue – a complex object, one that is both stable and perpetually evolving. This answer is based on the reformulating principle...
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Wiley-ISTE
Parution :
2019-03-04
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This book explains why cognitive linguistics offers a plausible theoretical framework for a systematic and unified analysis of the syntax and semantics of particle verbs. It explores the meaning of the verb + particle syntax, the particle placement of transitive...
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Springer
Parution :
2019-03-01
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This book concisely describes ways in which today's standard British English speech differs from the upper-class accent of the last century, Received Pronunciation, which many now find old-fashioned or even comic. In doing so it provides a much-needed update to the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-02-26
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This book presents a unique annotated collection of some 2000 playground games, rhymes, and wordplay of London children. It charts continuity and development in childlore at a time of major social and cultural change and offers a detailed snapshot of changes in the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-02-26
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This volume is a collection of studies on various aspects of word order variation in Turkish. As a head-final, left-branching ‘free’ word order language, Turkish raises a number of significant theory-internal as well as language-particular questions regarding...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2019-02-20
Collection :
Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory
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Migrationsbedingte Mehrsprachigkeit stellt insbesondere in deutschen Großstädten eine gesellschaftliche Realität dar, doch zum Umgang mit dieser sprachlichen Heterogenität – insbesonde re im formalen Kontext der Schule – wird weiterhin eine kontroverse Debatte geführt....
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Springer VS
Parution :
2019-02-20
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This book presents a collection of original research articles that showcase the state of the art of research in corpus and computational linguistic approaches to Chinese language teaching, learning and assessment. It offers a comprehensive set of corpus resources and...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2019-02-06
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Schreiben für den fachfremden, gut ausgebildeten Leser: Worauf muss ein Autor achten? Was geschieht, wenn jemand einen Text versteht, wie kann man ihn dabei unterstützen? Was ist einfache Sprache in Wissenschaft und Technik? Wer eine Vorstellung vom Leser hat, kann auch...
Editeur :
Springer Spektrum
Parution :
2019-02-01
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This book contains papers that were written to honor Professor Lyn Frazier on the occasion of her retirement from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Some were presented at the Lynschrift on May 19-20, 2018; others were written especially for this volume....
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2019-01-28
Collection :
Studies in Theoretical Psycholinguistics
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What challenges face jurisdictions that attempt to conduct law in two or more languages? How does choosing a legal language affect the way in which justice is delivered? Answers to these questions are vital for the 75 officially bilingual and multilingual states of the...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2019-01-28
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