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Dialogue with Bakhtin on Second and Foreign Language Learning: New Perspectives

Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2004

This volume is the first to explore links between the Russian linguist Mikhail Bakhtin's theoretical insights about language and practical concerns with second and foreign language learning and teaching. Situated within a strong conceptual framework and drawing from a rich empirical base, it reflects recent scholarship in applied linguistics that...

The Structure of Scientific Examination Questions (SpringerBriefs in Education)

Springer, 2013

This book shows how Systemic Functional Linguistics may be used to explore and explain the grammar of scientific examination questions. The author outlines the key elements of this theory and identifies problematical structures that affect the linguistic validity of such education assessment questions. This book also shows how...

Doctor Dolittle's Delusion: Animals and the Uniqueness of Human Language

Yale University Press, 2004

Dr. Dolittle—and many students of animal communication—are wrong: animals cannot use language. This fascinating book explains why. Can animals be taught a human language and use it to communicate? Or is human language unique to human beings, just as many complex behaviors of other species are uniquely theirs? This engrossing book...

Intelligent Tutoring Systems: 10th International Conference, ITS 2010, Pittsburgh, PA

Springer, 2010

The 10th International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems, ITS 2010, continued the bi-annual series of top-flight international conferences on the use of advanced educational technologies that are adaptive to users or groups of users. These highly interdisciplinary conferences bring together researchers in the learning sciences,...

The Handbook of Intercultural Discourse and Communication

John Wiley & Sons, 2012

The Handbook of Intercultural Discourse and Communication brings together internationally-renowned scholars from a range of fields to survey the theoretical perspectives and applied work, including example analyses, in this burgeoning area of linguistics.

Features contributions from established researchers in...

The MIT Encyclopedia of Communication Disorders

MIT Press, 2003

A massive reference work on the scale of MITECS (The MIT Encyclopedia of Cognitive Sciences), The MIT Encyclopedia of Communication Disorders will become the standard reference in this field for both research and clinical use. It offers almost 200 detailed entries, covering the entire range of communication and speech disorders in...

The Syntax of Chinese (Cambridge Syntax Guides)

Cambridge University Press, 2009

The past quarter of a century has seen a surge in Chinese syntactic research that has produced a sizeable literature on the analysis of almost every construction in Mandarin Chinese. This guide to Chinese syntax analyses the majority of constructions in Chinese that have featured in theoretical linguistics in the past 25 years, using the...

Psychology of Language: From Data to Theory

Psychology Press, 2001

'In my opinion this book is a gem. It is more up to date, covers a wider range of material [than the competition] and is excellently written... a comprehensive review of this complex field, it's a certain choice for undergraduate students. It also points the more advanced student towards a radical new agenda for psycholinguistics, in which...

Intelligent Tutoring Systems: 10th International Conference, ITS 2010, Pittsburgh, PA

Springer, 2010

Finite-State Language Processing (Language, Speech, and Communication)

A Bradford Book, 1997

Finite-state devices, which include finite-state automata, graphs, and finite-state transducers, are in wide use in many areas of computer science. Recently, there has been a resurgence of the use of finite-state devices in all aspects of computational linguistics, including dictionary encoding, text processing, and speech processing. This...

Natural Language Processing with TensorFlow: Teach language to machines using Python's deep learning library

Packt Publishing, 2018

Write modern natural language processing applications using deep learning algorithms and TensorFlow

Key Features

Focuses on more efficient natural language processing using TensorFlow

Covers NLP as a field in its own right to improve understanding for choosing TensorFlow...

The Cradle of Language (Studies in the Evolution of Language)

Oxford University Press, 2009

This book is the first to focus on the African origins of human language. It explores the origins of language and culture 250,000-150,000 years ago when modern humans evolved in Africa. Scholars from around the world address the fossil, genetic, and archaeological evidence and critically examine the ways it has been interpreted. The book also...

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