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The Development of speech perception: the transition from speech sounds to sp…
This comprehensive collection of current research in the development of speech perception and perceptual learning documents the striking changes that take place both in early childhood and throughout life and speculates about the mechanisms responsible for those changes. The findings reported from this rich and active field address the role of growing linguistic knowledge and experience and dem…
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Cyber Rights: Defending Free speech in the Digital Age
Lawyer and writer Mike Godwin has been at the forefront of the struggle to preserve freedom of speech on the Internet. In Cyber Rights he recounts the major cases and issues in which he was involved and offers his views on free speech and other constitutional rights in the digital age. Godwin shows how the law and the Constitution apply, or should apply, in cyberspace and defends the Net agains…
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Intentions in communication
"A Bradford book."Intentions in Communication brings together major theorists from artificial intelligence and computer science, linguistics, philosophy, and psychology whose work develops the foundations for an account of the role of intentions in a comprehensive theory of communication. It demonstrates, for the first time, the emerging cooperation among disciplines concerned with the fundamen…
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- 1 online resource (x, 508 pages) : illustrations.
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Native listening :language experience and the recognition of spoken words
An argument that the way we listen to speech is shaped by our experience with our native language.Understanding speech in our native tongue seems natural and effortless; listening to speech in a nonnative language is a different experience. In this book, Anne Cutler argues that listening to speech is a process of native listening because so much of it is exquisitely tailored to the requirements…
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Two-Dimensional Systems From Introduction to State of the Art
A solution permitting the stabilization of 2-dimensional (2-D) continuous-time saturated system under state feedback control is presented in this book. The problems of delay and saturation are treated at the same time. The authors obtain novel results on continuous 2-D systems using the unidirectional Lyapunov function. The control synthesis and the saturation and delay conditions are presented…
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Emotion, Affect and Personality in Speech the Bias of Language and Paralanguage
This book explores the various categories of speech variation and works to draw a line between linguistic and paralinguistic phenomenon of speech. Paralinguistic contrast is crucial to human speech but has proven to be one of the most difficult tasks in speech systems. In the quest for solutions to speech technology and sciences, this book narrows down the gap between speech technologists and …
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Syntax in the treetops
"A syntactic analysis of and solution to the semantic problem: how can speakers convey the same meaning using different speech acts?"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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Hate speech
"An Essential Knowledge book on hate speech"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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Safe spaces, brave spaces :diversity and free expression in education
How the essential democratic values of diversity and free expression can coexist on campus.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 1 online resource (xvi, 171 pages)
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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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