Bahasa adalah sarana dan media yang melaluinya orang, ras, dan bangsa berbagi informasi, gagasan, dan perasaan serta memberikan makna. Dan melalui berbagi seperti itu, identitas dan kesamaan dapat ditempa. Oleh karena itu, permasalahan yang berkaitan dengan kebijakan pendidikan bahasa dan sistem pendidikan bahasa sangatlah kompleks dan emosional bagi masyarakat mana pun, terutama masyarakat yan…
How do children learn that the word "dog" refers not to all four-legged animals, and not just to Ralph, but to all members of a particular species? How do they learn the meanings of verbs like "think," adjectives like "good," and words for abstract entities such as "mortgage" and "story"? The acquisition of word meaning is one of the fundamental issues in the study of mind. According to Paul…
Jilid ini berawal dari sesi khusus bertajuk "Prosody and Language in Contact" yang diselenggarakan pada Konferensi Speech Prosody 2012 di Shanghai. Tidak seperti lokakarya bahasa kontak pada umumnya, sesi ini bertujuan untuk mempertemukan para peneliti yang bekerja pada pemerolehan bahasa kedua, gesekan bahasa, multibahasa, dan deskripsi prosodik bahasa yang digunakan dalam situasi kontak, sepe…
Bidang analisis sentimen telah muncul sebagai arah penelitian penting dengan banyak penerapan di dunia nyata. Memahami opini dan sentimen masyarakat terhadap entitas seperti produk dan layanan sangat penting untuk pengambilan keputusan. Dengan menjamurnya situs ulasan online, blog, forum, dan platform media sosial, terdapat banyak sekali data buatan pengguna yang tersedia di web. Menganalisis d…
This introductory guide to language acquisition research is presented within the framework of Universal Grammar, a theory of the human faculty for language. The authors focus on two experimental techniques for assessing children's linguistic competence: the Elicited Production task, a production task, and the Truth Value Judgment task, a comprehension task. Their methodologies are designed to o…
An argument that agreement and agreementless languages are unified under an expanded view of grammatical features including both phi-features and certain discourse configurational features. Much attention in theoretical linguistics in the generative and Minimalist traditions is concerned with issues directly or indirectly related to movement. The EPP (extended projection principle), introduc…
A comprehensive account of the neurobiological basis of language, arguing that species-specific brain differences may be at the root of the human capacity for language. Language makes us human. It is an intrinsic part of us, although we seldom think about it. Language is also an extremely complex entity with subcomponents responsible for its phonological, syntactic, and semantic aspects. In …
Making diverse data in linguistics and the language sciences open, distributed, and accessible: perspectives from language/language acquistiion researchers and technical LOD (linked open data) researchers. This volume examines the challenges inherent in making diverse data in linguistics and the language sciences open, distributed, integrated, and accessible, thus fostering wide data sharing…
An argument that children are born to assign structures to their ambient language, yielding a view of language variation not based on parameters defined at UG. The open access edition of this book was made possible by generous funding from Arcadia – a charitable fund of Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin. In this book, David Lightfoot argues that just as some birds are born to chirp, huma…
A novel logic-based framework for representing the syntax–semantics interface of natural language, applicable to a range of phenomena. 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 phenomenaâ…