Introduction to linguistics

Ebook "Psychology of perception" defines the terminology used in the fields of sensation and perception and describes the biological and physical bases required for understanding sensory experiences. It offers more specifically an introduction to the study of psychophysics, auditory perception, visual perception, and attention, and discusses the basic concepts and mechanisms used to interpret different perceptual phenomena.

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Ebook "An introduction to language (10th edition)" continues in the spirit of our friend, colleague, mentor, and coauthor, Victoria Fromkin. Vicki loved language, and she loved to tell people about it. She found linguistics fun and fascinating, and she wanted every student and every teacher to think so, too. Though this edition has been completely rewritten for improved clarity and currency, we have nevertheless preserved Vicki’s light hearted, personal approach to a complex topic, including witty quotations from noted authors

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presents the following content: Introduction to Linguistics: Its Aspects; Linguistics: Branches and Tools; Brief History of the Growth of Modern Linguistics: Bloomfield to Chomsky; Phonetics: Speech Mechanisms-Places and Manners of Articulation;...Please refer to the documentation for more details.

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In this article, M.A.K Halliday (2004)’s Systemic Functional Linguistics theory of ‘Clause as Representation’ is applied to investigate how ideational meanings are expressed in IELTS sample essays.

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There always exist new things, phenomena, concepts in our society, which creates the introduction of new words. Therefore, the emergence of new word is a regular process of linguistics for the enrichment of Vietnamese. However, there are not many scientific studies of this issue.

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This paper presents the moves, steps and patterns of an important model which is called a “Create A Research Space” model - CARS (Swales, 1990) through the examination of a selection of 60 Introductions of English Linguistics Papers (IELPs). The aim of the paper is to investigate and analyse Swales’ CARS model to discover the patterns used in the introductions.

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(BQ) Efficiency and complexity in grammars addresses a question fundamental to any discussion of grammatical theory and grammatical variation: to what extent can principles of grammar be explained through language use? The book argues that there is a profound correspondence between performance data and the fixed conventions of grammars.

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(BQ) The grammar of words - An introduction to linguistic morphology (Oxford Textbooks in Linguistics) introduces the reader to the basic methods for the study of the internal structure of words, and to the theoretical issues raised by analyses of word structure concerning the organization of the grammars of natural languages. This book is divided into 2 parts, part 1 presents the following main contents: Chapter 1 morphology: basic notions, chapter 2 morphological analysis, chapter 3 derivation, chapter 4 compounding, chapter 5 inflection, chapter 6 inflectional systems.

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Part 1 of book "Speech and Language Processing: An introduction to natural language processing" provide with knowledge about: regular expressions and automata; words and transducers; N-grams; word classes and part-of-speech tagging; hidden markov and maximum entropy models; phonetics; speech synthesis; automatic speech recognition; speech recognition: advanced topics;...

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Part 2 of book "Speech and Language Processing: An introduction to natural language processing" provide with knowledge about: statistical parsing; language and complexity; features and unification; representing meaning; computational semantics; lexical semantics; computational lexical semantics; computational discourse; information extraction; question answering and summarization; dialogue and conversational agents;...

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Part 1 of the document "Speech and language processing: An introduction to natural language processing, computational linguistics, and speech recognition" provide with knowledge about: regular expressions, text normalization, edit distance; N-gram language models; naive bayes and sentiment classification; logistic regression; vector semantics and embeddings; neural networks and neural language models;...

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Part 2 of the document "Speech and language processing: An introduction to natural language processing, computational linguistics, and speech recognition" provide with knowledge about: dependency parsing; logical representations of sentence meaning; computational semantics and semantic parsing; information extraction; word senses and WordNet; semantic role labeling; lexicons for sentiment, affect, and connotation;...

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The purpose of this paper is to examine construal as a basic human cognitive operation and its representative forms in Cognitive Linguistics. To achieve this purpose, the paper focuses on two main points: (a) a brief introduction to construal and some of its classification models; (b) an examination of the representative forms of construal which we often see in the literature of Cognitive Linguistics.

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This chapter tries to introduce the subject of intonation and its form and how it is transcribed on paper. It then focuses on intonation in English and its five different forms followed by the a summary of the different models of intonation and the research in applied linguistics. It also informs about action research and the rationale for its being used for this project. Finally it provides a brief introduction of some of the studies in teaching intonation and their limitations.

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Rudolf Carnap is a great philosopher of modern Western philosophy of the twentieth century. His thoughts relate to the topics of logics and linguistics in which the conception of semantics occupies an important position. He built a fairly complete semantic system in his classic work, Introduction to Semantics. The study of the logical thoughts of semantics of R. Carnap not only has important theoretical significance for philosophy and logics, but also suggests problems of linguistics and mathematics.

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In this chapter, students will be able to understand: Semantics: an introduction, semantics: lexical & sentential, sentential semantics, levels of language, phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics.

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Lecture Introduction to linguistics: Sign language. In this chapter, students will be able to understand: Sign language, myths about sign language, why it is important?, american sign language, fingerspelling.

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In this chapter, students will be able to understand: Vocal-auditory channel, arbitrariness, semanticity, displacement, duality or double-articulation, creativit, cultural transmission, discreetness, structure dependence, prevarication, medium – transferability, reflexiveness, turn taking, stimulus-freedom, learnability.

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Lecture Introduction to linguistics: Discourse & discourse analysis. In this chapter, students will be able to understand: What is discourse? definitions of discourse, doing discourse analysis, scope, influences, approaches.

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In this chapter, students will be able to understand: Phonetics, 3 types of phonetics, articulatory phonetics, (places, manner, voicing), distinctive feature analysis, acoustic and auditory phonetics, vowels and consonants, phonetic transcription.

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