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This book examines the use of tasks in second language instruction in a variety of international contexts, and addresses the need for a better understanding of how tasks are used in teaching and program-level decision-making. The chapters consider the benefits and challenges that teachers, program designers and researchers face in using tasks.
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Aboriginal people have been in Australia for at least 40,000 years, speaking about 250 languages. Through examination of published and unpublished materials on each of the individual languages, Professor Dixon surveys the ways in which the languages vary typologically and presents a profile of this long-established linguistic area. The areal distribution of most features is illustrated with more than 30 maps, showing that the languages tend to move in cyclic fashion with respect to many of the parameters. There is also an index of languages and language groups. Professor Dixon, a pioneering scholar in the field, brings an interesting perspective to this diverse and complex material.
Grammar --- Australian languages --- Australian languages. --- Aboriginal Australians --- Grammar. --- Languages --- Arts and Humanities --- Language & Linguistics --- Language - Linguistics --- Language - Linguistics.
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There are few linguistic phenomena that have seduced linguists so skillfully as grammatical case has done. Ever since Panini (4th Century BC), case has claimed a central role in linguistic theory and continues to do so today. However, despite centuries worth of research, case has yet to reveal its most important secrets. This book offers breakthrough explanations for the understanding of case through agent-based experiments in cultural language evolution. The experiments demonstrate that case systems may emerge because they have a selective advantage for communication: they reduce the cognitive effort that listeners need for semantic interpretation, while at the same time limiting the cognitive resources required for doing so.
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The monograph focuses on the typological differences between the four most widely spoken Romance languages (Spanish, Portuguese, French and Italian) and Czech. Utilizing data from InterCorp, the parallel corpus project of the Czech National Corpus, the book analyses various categories (expression of potential non-volitional participation, iterativity, causation, beginning of an action and adverbial subordination) to discover differences and similarities between Czech and the Romance languages. Due to the massive amount of data mined, as well as the high number of languages examined, the monograph presents general and individual typological features of the four Romance languages and Czech that often exceed what has previously been accepted in the field of comparative linguistics.
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'Indigenous people are pushing back against more than 200 years of colonisation and rejecting being seen by the academy as 'subjects' of research. A quiet revolution is taking place among many Indigenous communities across Australia, a revolution insisting that we have control over our languages and our cultural knowledge - for our languages to be a part of our future, not our past. We are reclaiming our right to determine how linguistic research takes place in our communities and how we want to engage with the academy in the future. This book is an essential guide for non-Indigenous linguists wanting to engage more deeply with Indigenous communities and form genuinely collaborative research partnerships. It fleshes out and redefines ethical linguistic research and work with Indigenous people and communities, with application beyond linguistics. By reassessing, from an Indigenous point of view, what it means to 'save' an endangered language, Something's Gotta Change shows how linguistic research can play a positive role in keeping (maintaining) or putting (reclaiming) endangered languages on our tongues.'- Taken from publisher's website.
Aboriginal Australians --- Linguistics --- Language - Linguistics. --- Languages --- Research.
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Les TIPA. Travaux interdisciplinaires sur la parole et le langage présentent des études sur la question du langage et de la parole, dans une perspective interdisciplinaire. Ces phénomènes sont abordés selon différents axes : analyse des processus physiologiques et cognitifs ; description et formalisation ; mécanismes discursifs et interactifs ; altérations, dysfonctionnements et handicap. Du numéro 1 au 27, les TIPA présentaient successivement les travaux de l'Institut de phonétique et du laboratoire Parole et Langage, qui accueille des phonéticiens, des linguistes, des informaticiens, des psychologues, des physiologistes et des médecins. Il s'agissait d'une vitrine des travaux menés au laboratoire et était le reflet de cette interdisciplinarité.
Arts and Humanities --- Language & Linguistics --- Communication --- Psychology --- Applied Linguistics --- Language & Linguistics --- Phonetics --- Phonetics. --- Phonétique --- Articulatory phonetics --- Orthoepy --- Phonology --- Linguistics --- Speech --- communication --- psychology --- applied linguistics --- language & linguistics
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Applied linguistics --- Applied linguistics. --- Linguistics --- Arts and Humanities --- Language & Linguistics
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