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Interaction of Tone with Voicing and Foot Structure Evidence from Kera Phonetics and Phonology
ISBN: PB: 9781575866086, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, September 2013
440 pp., 23x15 cm
This book investigates the topics of tone, vowel harmony, and metrical structure, with special reference to Kera, a Chadic language spoken in Chad and Cameroon. Kera is a tone language where a change in the pitch of the word can make a difference to...
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£40,00
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Individual Differences
ISBN: PB: 9781575866246, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, September 2013
320 pp., 23x15 cm
In 1894 John Dewey established his experimental laboratory school at the University of Chicago, with a focus on teaching each student according to their individual differences. This concept indicated a shift away from the emphasis on communal, classr...
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Japanese/Korean Linguistics Volume 20
ISBN: PB: 9781575866383, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, August 2013
550 pp., 22.9x15 cm
Japanese and Korean are typologically similar, with linguistic phenomena in one often having counterparts in the other. The Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference provides a forum for research, particularly through comparative study, of both language...
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£28,00
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Computational Introduction to Linguistics Describing Language in Plain Prolog
ISBN: PB: 9781575866598, ISBN: HB: 9781575866574, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, August 2013
400 pp., 23x15 cm
In this book, Almerindo E. Ojeda offers a unique perspective on linguistics by discussing developing computer programs that will assign particular sounds to particular meanings and, conversely, particular meanings to particular sounds. Since these as...
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£24,00
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£49,00
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Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous
ISBN: PB: 9780941736053, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, March 2013
200 pp., 23x15 cm
Deeply original, inspiring to some, abhorrent to others, George Berkeley's philosophy of immaterialism is still influential three hundred years after the publication of his most widely read book, "Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous". Berkele...
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£7,00
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Concreteness in Grammar
ISBN: PB: 9781575866062, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, March 2013
240 pp., 23x15 cm
Based on an exhaustive search of published sources and the author's firsthand fieldwork, "Concreteness in Grammar" explores the role of phonological form in the noun class systems of the Arapesh languages spoken in Papua New Guinea. Linguists have lo...
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£26,50
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