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The Origins of Self
The Origins of Self explores the role that selfhood plays in defining human society, and each human individual in that society. It considers the genetic and cultural origins of self, the role that self plays in socialisation and language, and the types of self we generate in our individual journeys to and through adulthood. Edwardes argues that other awareness is a relatively early evolutionary…
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- 9781787356306
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- 401.9 EDW o
A Grammar of the Mahratta Language To Which Are Added Dialogues on Familiar …
Marathi, an official language of Maharashtra and Goa, is among the twenty most widely spoken languages in the world. The southernmost Indo-Aryan language, it is also spoken in Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Karnataka, and Daman and Diu, and is believed to be over 1,300 years old, with its origins in Sanskrit. First published in 1805, this grammar of Marathi (then known as Mahratta) was compiled by th…
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- Ed. 1
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- 9781139519847
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Agreement Beyond Phi
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), introduced …
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- 9780262035880
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- 400 MIY a
Personality in Speech: Assessment and Automatic Classification
This work combines interdisciplinary knowledge and experience from research fields of psychology, linguistics, audio-processing, machine learning, and computer science. The work systematically explores a novel research topic devoted to automated modeling of personality expression from speech. For this aim, it introduces a novel personality assessment questionnaire and presents the results of ex…
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- 1
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- 978-3-319-09516-5
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- XIV, 176
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- T-Labs Series in Telecommunication Services
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- 155.28 POL p
Reading Fluency: Current Insights from Neurocognitive Research and Interventi…
The book is dedicated to the blessed memory of Prof. Zvia Breznitz, whose groundbreaking research has made a tremendous impact on the understanding of fluency in reading. The book presents a multidimensional perspective of recent research and reviews on fluency in reading. The first part presents recent brain-imaging findings from studies into the neurobiological basis of reading, as well as co…
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- 1
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- 978-3-319-30478-6
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- XV, 161
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- Literacy Studies
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- 407
Absolute Clauses in English from the Systemic Functional Perspective: A Corpu…
This book focuses on the structural diversity, semantic variability, case choice, stylistic characteristics and diachronic distribution of English absolute clauses. The syntactic roles assumed by absolute clauses in the traditional sense can be categorized into clausal adjuncts, attendant circumstances and appositives. These three types of function correspond to the three hypotactic expansions …
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- Ed. 1
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- 978-3-662-46367-3
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- XX, 178
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- The M.A.K. Halliday Library Functional Linguistics Series
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- 400 HEQ a
Early Greek Alphabetic Writing : A Linguistic Approach
Despite the flourishing of epichoric studies on the Archaic Greek scripts in the 1960s, embodied by archaeologists Lilian Hamilton Jeffery and Margherita Guarducci, most scholarship on early alphabetic writing in Greece has focused on questions around the origin of ‘the Greek alphabet’ instead of acknowledging the diversity of alphabetic systems that emerged in Geometric and Archaic times. …
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- 9780000000845
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- 411 AST e
African linguistics across the disciplines Selected papers from the 48th Ann…
Since the hiring of its first Africanist linguist Carleton Hodge in 1964, Indiana University’s Department of Linguistics has had a strong and continuing presence in the study of African languages and linguistics through the work of its faculty and of its graduates on the faculties of many other universities. Research on African linguistics at IU has covered some of the major language groups s…
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- 9783961102129
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Computational Cognitive Modeling and Linguistic Theory
This open access book introduces a general framework that allows natural language researchers to enhance existing competence theories with fully specified performance and processing components. Gradually developing increasingly complex and cognitively realistic competence-performance models, it provides running code for these models and shows how to fit them to real-time experimental data. This…
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- Volume 6
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- 978-3-030-31846-8
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- XII, 294 halaman
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- Language, Cognition, and Mind
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- 410 BRA c
A Grammar of the High Dialect of the Tamil Language, Termed Shen-Tamil
Published in 1822, but completed in manuscript form almost 100 years earlier, this work was designed to accompany Beschi's earlier Grammar of Common Tamil. While the latter enabled the student to speak the language, this reissue offers a way into reading Tamil's classical literature with its complexity of thought and technique. One of the earliest and most distinguished pioneers in the field of…
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- 9781139505918
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- Cambridge Library Collection - Perspectives from the Royal Asiatic Society
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