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Encoding and Decoding of Emotional Speech A Cross-Cultural and Multimodal St…
This book addresses the subject of emotional speech, especially its encoding and decoding process during interactive communication, based on an improved version of Brunswik’s Lens Model. The process is shown to be influenced by the speaker’s and the listener’s linguistic and cultural backgrounds, as well as by the transmission channels used. Through both psycholinguistic and phonetic a…
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- 978-3-662-47691-8
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- 36 b/w illustrations, 61 illustrations in colour
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A Grammar of the Sungskrit Language to Which Are Added Examples for the Exer…
The Indo-Aryan language of Sanskrit is the primary language of Hinduism and also a scholarly language of Buddhism. Dating back to the second millennium BCE, it is considered to be the parent of most modern languages of India, and remains central to work in Indo-European studies, philology and linguistics today. First published in 1806, this is a comprehensive grammar of Sanskrit, compiled by th…
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- 9781139507271
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- Cambridge Library Collection - Perspectives from the Royal Asiatic Society
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Cicero, On Pompey’s Command (De Imperio), 27-49 : Latin Text, Study Aids wi…
Overview: In republican times, one of Rome's deadliest enemies was King Mithridates of Pontus. In 66 BCE, after decades of inconclusive struggle, the tribune Manilius proposed a bill that would give supreme command in the war against Mithridates to Pompey the Great, who had just swept the Mediterranean clean of another menace: the pirates. While powerful aristocrats objected to the proposal, wh…
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- 978-1-78374-079-6
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- 800 GIL c
Connected Code: Why Children Need to Learn Programming
Why every child needs to learn to code: the shift from "computational thinking" to computational participation.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 0262319241
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- 1 online resource.
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Twitterbots: Making Machines that Make Meaning
The world of Twitterbots, from botdom's greatest hits to bot construction to the place of the bot in the social media universe.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262346436
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- 1 online resource (352 pages) :illustrations
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The price of linguistic productivity :how children learn to break the rules o…
An investigation of how children balance rules and exceptions when they learn languages."All languages have exceptions alongside overarching rules and regularities. How does a young child tease them apart within just a few years of language acquisition? In this book, drawing an economic analogy, Charles Yang argues that just as the price of goods is determined by the balance between supply and …
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- 9780262336376
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Voice and v: Lessons from Acehnese
'Voice and V' investigates the syntactic structure of voice, using Acehnese as the empirical starting point. A central claim is that voice is encoded in a functional projection, VoiceP, which is distinct from, and higher than, vP. The book further claims that VoiceP may be associated with phi-features that semantically restrict the external argument position but do not saturate it. Through mino…
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- 9780262320559
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 193 pages) :illustrations.
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WordNet :an electronic lexical database
"Contributors : Reem Al-Halimi, Robert C. Berwick, J.F.M. Burg, Martin Chodorow, Christiane Fellbaum, Joachim Grabowski, Sanda Harabagiu, Marti A. Hearst, Graeme Hirst, Douglas A. Jones, Rick Kazman, Karen T. Kohl, Shari Landes, Claudia Leacock, George A. Miller, Katherine J. Miller, Dan Moldovan, Naoyuki Nomura, Uta Priss, Philip Resnik, David St-Onge, Randee Tengi, Reind P. van de Riet, Ellen…
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- 9780262272551
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- 1 online resource (xxii, 423 pages).
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Learnability and cognition : the acquisition of argument structure
Before Steven Pinker wrote bestsellers on language and human nature, he wrote several technical monographs on language acquisition that have become classics in cognitive science. Learnability and Cognition, first published in 1989, brought together two big topics: how do children learn their mother tongue, and how does the mind represent basic categories of meaning such as space, time, causalit…
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- 9780262314275
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- 1 online resource (xx, 488 pages) :illustrations.
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From signal to symbol :the evolution of language
"An original argument to explain the "language gap" between humans and other primates, drawing on research from evolutionary biology, paleobiology, and archaeology"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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