This open access book aimes to close a critical research gap in understanding how frequently German-speaking adolescents come into contact with the English language through various media channels, such as television, books, or the internet, and how this contact influences learners’ English competences. In addition, this research project explores the effect of family background and gender on…
This open access book offers an introduction to mixed generalized linear models with applications to the biological sciences, basically approached from an applications perspective, without neglecting the rigor of the theory. For this reason, the theory that supports each of the studied methods is addressed and later - through examples - its application is illustrated. In addition, some of the a…
Here, Richards investigates the conditions imposed upon syntax by the need to create syntactic objects that can be interpreted by phonology - that is, objects that can be pronounced.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
Providing a reanalysis of minimalist syntax, Thomas Stroik considers the optimal design properties for human language.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
Bowers proposes a radically new approach to argument structure that has the potential to unify data from a wide range of different language types in terms of a simple and universal syntactic structure.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
Here, Ian Roberts explores the consequences of Chomsky's conjecture that head-movement is not part of the narrow syntax the computational system that relates the lexicon to the interfaces.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
In this work, Prashant Parikh offers a new account of meaning for natural language. He argues that equilibrium, or balance among multiple interacting forces, is a key attribute of language and meaning and shows how to derive the meaning of an utterance from first principles by modelling it as a system of interdependent games.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
An argument that not only do movement and agreement occur in every language, they also work in tandem to imbue natural language with enormous expressive power. An unusual property of human language is the existence of movement operations. Modern syntactic theory from its inception has dealt with the puzzle of why movement should occur. In this monograph, Shigeru Miyagawa combines this question …
"A Bradford book.""This volume is the result of the City University of New York (CUNY) Phonology Forum Symposium on Architecture and Representation in Phonology that was held in Manhattan on 20-21 February 2004"--Acknowledgments.The essays in this volume address foundational questions in phonology that cut across different schools of thought within the discipline.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliograp…
Paul Kiparksy's work in linguistics has been wide-ranging and fundamental. His contributions have influenced virtually every field of contemporary linguistics, from generative phonology to poetic theory. This is a collection of essays by his colleagues and students.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.