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A theory of indexical shift :meaning, grammar, and crosslinguistic variation
"This book answers both the 'what' and the 'why' question raised by indexical shift in crosslinguistic perspective. What are the possible profiles of an indexical shifting language, and why do we find these profiles and not various equally conceivable others? Drawing both from the literature (published and unpublished) and from original fieldwork on the language Nez Perce, Amy Rose Deal puts fo…
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Critical code studies :initial methods
"Critical Code Studies (CCS) names a set of methodologies for the exploration of computer source code using the hermeneutics of the humanities. Like 10 PRINT CHR$ (205.5 + RND (1)); : GOTO 10, Mark Marino's Critical Code Studies treats code not as merely functional but as a text, one that can be read, and misinterpreted, by non-programmers. As the author notes, code's "meaning is not determined…
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Changing minds :how aging affects language and how language affects aging
Why language ability remains resilient and how it shapes our lives.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262353533
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Remarks on the phonological evolution of Russian in comparison with the other…
This is the first English translation of a groundbreaking 1929 work in historical phonology by the renowned linguist Roman Jakobson, considered the founder of modern structural linguistics. A revolutionary treatment of the phonological evolution of Russian in relation to other Slavic languages, the book introduced a new type of historical linguistics that focused on the systematic reasons behin…
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- 9780262348836
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The Wordbank project :variability and consistency in children's language lear…
"A "big data" approach to understanding cross-cultural langauge learning in children"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 026236297X
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Quotations as pictures
"A short philosophy of language book on quotation that maps out the history of the topic and offers a new approach to it"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 0262367351
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Development of linguistic linked open data resources for collaborative data-i…
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…
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- 9780262357210
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Email and the everyday :stories of disclosure, trust, and digital labor
"Email and the Everyday : Stories of Disclosure, Trust, and Digital Labor focuses on email in its own right as a standalone media form in order to examine its technical and material infrastructure, its iconography and GUI, its affordances, and its languages"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 0262362775
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Birdsong, speech, and language :exploring the evolution of mind and brain
Scholars have long been captivated by the parallels between birdsong and human speech and language. In this book, leading scholars draw on the latest research to explore what birdsong can tell us about the biology of human speech and language and the consequences for evolutionary biology. They examine the cognitive and neural similarities between birdsong learning and speech and language acquis…
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- 0262313820
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 542 pages) :illustrations
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Evolution of communicative flexibility :complexity, creativity, and adaptabil…
Experts investigate communicative flexibility (in both form and usage of signals) as the foundation of the evolution of complex communication systems, including human language.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262281027
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- 1 online resource (x, 356 pages) :illustrations.
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