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  • Subject Pronoun Expression in Spanish

    A Cross-Dialectal Perspective

    by Ana M. Carvalho, Rafael Orozco, Naomi Lapidus Shin, Ricardo Otheguy, Gabriela G. Alfaraz, Yolanda Lastra, Pedro Martín Butragueño, Pekka Posio0, Rena Torres Cacoullos1, Catherine Travis2, Jim Michnowicz3, Ana de Prada Perez4, Ryan Bessett5, Bret Linford6, Daniel Erker7, Kimberly Geeslin8, Stephen Fafulas9, Carmen Silva-Corvalán0, Silvina Montrul1, Noelia Sánchez-Walker2 ...
    Series series Georgetown Studies in Spanish Linguistics series
    Much recent scholarship has sought to identify the linguistic and social factors that favor the expression or omission of subject pronouns in Spanish. This volume brings together leading experts on the topic of language variation in Spanish to provide a panoramic view of research trends, develop probabilistic models of grammar, and investigate the impact of language contact on pronoun expression ... Read more

    $65.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Bilingual Language Acquisition

    Spanish and English in the First Six Years

    by Carmen Silva-Corvalán ...
    Series series Cambridge Approaches to Language Contact
    How do children develop bilingual competence? Do bilingual children develop language in the same way as monolinguals? Set in the context of findings on language development, this book examines the acquisition of English and Spanish by two brothers in the first six years of their lives. Based on in-depth and meticulous analyses of naturalistic data, it explores how the systems of both languages ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • Language Dominance in Bilinguals

    Issues of Measurement and Operationalization

    Edited by Jeanine Treffers-Daller, Carmen Silva-Corvalán ...
    With contributions from leading scholars of bilingualism, Language Dominance in Bilinguals is the first publication to survey different approaches to language dominance, along with suggested avenues for further research. It illustrates how a critical approach to the notion of language dominance, as well as its operationalization and measurement, can provide new insights into this burgeoning area ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Sociolingüística y pragmática del español

    segunda edición

    by Carmen Silva-Corvalán, Andrés Enrique-Arias ...
    Series series Georgetown Studies in Spanish Linguistics series
    This thoroughly updated second edition provides a clear and comprehensive overview of sociolinguistics and the pragmatics of oral communication in Spanish. While maintaining the same structure as the first edition, it includes revised “Ejercicios de reflexión” and new comprehension checks at the end of each chapter, along with numerous bibliographic references throughout, enhancing its use as a ... Read more

    $54.99 CAD

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  • The Acquisition of Heritage Languages

    by Silvina Montrul ...
    Heritage speakers are native speakers of a minority language they learn at home, but due to socio-political pressure from the majority language spoken in their community, their heritage language does not fully develop. In the last decade, the acquisition of heritage languages has become a central focus of study within linguistics and applied linguistics. This work centres on the grammatical ... Read more

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  • The Stuff of Thought

    Language as a Window into Human Nature

    by Steven Pinker ...
    **This New York Times bestseller is an exciting and fearless investigation of language from the author of Rationality, The Better Angels of Our Nature and The Sense of Style and Enlightenment Now."Curious, inventive, fearless, naughty."--The New York Times Book Review**Bestselling author Steven Pinker possesses that rare combination of scientific aptitude and verbal eloquence that enables him to ... Read more

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  • Second Language Acquisition

    Introducing Intervention Research

    by Tania Ionin, Silvina Montrul ...
    Based on classic and cutting-edge research, this textbook shows how grammatical phenomena can best be taught to second language and bilingual learners. Bringing together second language research, linguistics, pedagogical grammar, and language teaching, it demonstrates how linguistic theory and second language acquisition findings optimize classroom intervention research. The book assumes a ... Read more

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  • Bilingual Competence and Bilingual Proficiency in Child Development

    by Norbert Francis ...
    A study of first and second language development in an indigenous community with implications for broader linguistic and cognitive issues.When two or more languages are part of a child's world, we are presented with a rich opportunity to learn something about language in general and about how the mind works. In this book, Norbert Francis examines the development of bilingual proficiency and the ... Read more

    $59.99 CAD

  • Sociolinguistic Aspects of Brazilian Portuguese: R Deletion

    by Leonardo Reis ...
    This book brings attention to R deletion around the world, mainly in Brazilian Portuguese in the city of Belo Horizonte, where the occurrence is mostly found. The study focuses on the sociolinguistic and phonetic impact of R deletion in Brazilian Portuguese. R deletion is an old phenomenon originating in Vulgar Latin. This phenomenon is seen as a characteristic of the lower-class population. Does ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • Um. . .

    Slips, Stumbles, and Verbal Blunders, and What They Mean

    by Michael Erard ...
    **Essential reading for talkers and listeners of all stripes: An original, entertaining, and surprising book that investigates verbal blunders: what they are, what they say about those who make them, and how and why we've come to judge them.“An enjoyable tour of linguistic mishaps.” —The New York Times Book Review**Um... is about how you really speak, and why it's normal for your everyday speech ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • The Usage-based Study of Language Learning and Multilingualism

    by Lourdes Ortega, Andrea E. Tyler, Michel Achard, Pauline Beaupoil-Hourdel, Marion Blondel, Dominique Boutet, Gilad Brandes0, Monica Ekiert1, Maryia Fedzechkina2, Kimberly Geeslin3, T. Florian Jaeger4, Ursula Kania5, Sol Lago6, Marvin Lam7, Fenfen Le8, Sarah Lee9, Bret Linford0, Graham Lock1, Avizia Y. Long2, Maisa Martin3, Silvia Marijuan4, Christian Matthiessen M.I.M.5, Aliyah Morgenstern6, Elissa L. Newport7, Jack Pun8, Dorit Ravid9, Cristina Sanz0, Diana Slade1, Megan Solon2, Taina Tammelin-Laine3, Amy S. Thompson4, Stefanie Wulff5, Helen Zhao6 ...
    Series series Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics series
    When humans learn languages, are they also learning how to create shared meaning? In The Usage-based Study of Language Learning and Multilingualism, a cadre of international experts say yes and offer cutting-edge research in usage-based linguistics to explore how language acquisition, in particular multilingual language acquisition, works.Each chapter presents an original study that supports the ... Read more

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  • Language Attrition

    by Monika S. Schmid ...
    Series series Key Topics in Sociolinguistics
    'Language attrition' describes the loss of, or changes to, grammatical and other features of a language as a result of declining use by speakers who have changed their linguistic environment and language habits. In such a situation there may, for example, be simplification in the tense system or in certain properties of subordinate clauses; some vocabulary items might fall into disuse and phonetic ... Read more

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