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An investigation of howchildren balance rules and exceptions when they learn languages.

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A laugh-out-loud dissection of the linguistic myths surrounding British and American English

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A laugh-out-loud dissection of the linguistic myths surrounding British and American English

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"A leading practitioner of 'cognitive aesthetics' shows how narrative literature works its magic on readers by drawing surreptitiously on patterns developed over four thousand years ago"--

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"A conversation with the founder of modern linguistics on the history of science, the limitations of technology, the current state of brain studies, the future of linguistics, and the fundamental mysteries of the human mind"--

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This superbly well-informed - and also wonderfully entertaining - history of the English language answers all these questions, showing how the many strands of English (Standard English, dialect and slang among them) developed to create the richly-varied language of today.

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Writing is one of humanity's greatest inventions. Without it there would be no history and no civilization as we know it. But how, when and where did writing evolve This book discusses the history of decipherment and major writing systems, from cuneiform and Egyptian and Mayan hieroglyphs to alphabets and the scripts of China and Japan.

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Now in paperback - Heaney's prize-winning book-length translations as well as the many individual poems in fourteen languages worked on and contributing to a glittering literary career

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"In this book, Yusuke Kubota and Robert Levine propose a type-logical version of categorial grammar as a viable alternative model of natural language syntax and semantics. They show that this novel logic-based framework is applicable to a range of phenomena--especially in the domains of coordination and ellipsis--that have proven problematic for traditional approaches."--

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"A "big data" approach to understanding cross-cultural langauge learning in children"--

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"An introduction to semantics for the general reader. How things mean, from animal communication to music"--

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Berwick and Chomsky draw on recent developments in linguistic theory to offer an evolutionary account of language and humans' remarkable, species-specific ability to acquire it.

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Neither a straightforward dictionary of etymology nor a linear history of language, Word Routes is an entertaining alphabetical guide to the stories behind many everyday words.

A comprehensive survey of English as it is spoken throughout the world.

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The Arabic alphabet has a fascinating history, one that is entwined with the development of culture and society in the Middle East. This book traces the origins of the Arabic alphabet back to Aramaic, a descendant of Phoenecian, which itself gave rise to the Hebrew and Greek alphabets.

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A map-based analysis of patterns of language change, specifically the Welsh language. The volume concludes that the prime influences on the language derive from the large-scale socio-economic changes which have taken place in western society as a whole since the end of World War II.

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This A to Z is the first book to both highlight common translation pitfalls and adopt a bidirectional approach, by addressing problems relating to both Arabic - English and English - Arabic translation.

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Aboutness has been studied from any number of angles. Brentano made it the defining feature of the mental. Phenomenologists try to pin down the aboutness-features of particular mental states. Materialists sometimes claim to have grounded aboutness in natural regularities. Attempts have even been made, in library science and information theory, to o

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