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The Childes Project

Tools for Analyzing Talk, Volume I: Transcription format and Programs

By: Brian MacWhinney

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The Childes Project

Tools for Analyzing Talk, Volume I: Transcription format and Programs

By: Brian MacWhinney

Volume I is the first of two volumes that document the three components of the CHILDES Project. It is divided into two parts which provide an introduction to the use of computational tools for studying language learning. The first part is the CHAT manual, which describes the conventions and principles of CHAT transcription and recommends specific methods for data collection and digitization. The second part is the CLAN manual, which describes the uses of the editor, sonic CHAT, and the various analytic commands. The book will be useful for both novice and experienced users of the CHILDES tools, as well as instructors and students working with transcripts of child language. Volume II describes in detail all of the corpora included in the CHILDES database. The conversational interactions in the corpora come from monolingual children and their caregivers and siblings, as well as bilingual children, older school-aged children, adult second-language learners, children with various types of language disabilities, and aphasic recovering from language loss. The database includes transcripts in 26 different languages. The downloadable resources that accompany these volumes includes the transcript files described in Volume II. It runs on both Windows and Macintosh platforms. For more information or updates to the files, visit the CHILDES Web site at http://childes.psy.cmu.edu

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The CHILDES Project: The database

By: Brian MacWhinney

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The CHILDES Project: The database

By: Brian MacWhinney

The CD-Rom includes the transcript files described in volume II"--Page 4 of cover.

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Psychology Press

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0805835725

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SLA Applied

Connecting Theory and Practice

By: Brian Tomlinson,Hitomi Masuhara

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SLA Applied

Connecting Theory and Practice

By: Brian Tomlinson,Hitomi Masuhara

This singular new textbook is both an introduction to the major theories of second language acquisition and a practical proposal for their application to language learning courses. It explains and evaluates these theories, and focuses on recent research that has enriched thinking about the best ways to facilitate communicative effectiveness in an L2. It then suggests practical applications regarding language planning, curriculum development, pedagogy, materials development, teacher development, and assessment, establishing a tangible connection between theory and practice. Unlike many SLA books which are narrowly focused on the acquisition of language, it explores the roles of factors such as pragmatics, para-linguistic signals, gesture, semiotics, multi-modality, embodied language, and brain activity in L2 communication. SLA Applied connects research-based theories to the authors' and students' real-life experiences in the classroom, and stimulates reflection and creativity through the inclusion of Readers' Tasks in every chapter. This engaging and relevant text is suitable for students in Applied Linguistics or TESOL courses, trainee teachers, researchers, and practitioners.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108584462

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Vocabulary Studies in First and Second Language Acquisition

The Interface Between Theory and Application

By: Brian Richards,David D. Malvern,Paul Meara,James Milton,Jeanine Treffers-Daller

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Vocabulary Studies in First and Second Language Acquisition

The Interface Between Theory and Application

By: Brian Richards,David D. Malvern,Paul Meara,James Milton,Jeanine Treffers-Daller

International scholars and researchers present cutting edge contributions on the significance of vocabulary in current thinking on first and second language acquisition in the school and at home. By pursuing common themes across first and second language and bilingual contexts, the editors offer a collection that tackles the most important issues.

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Springer

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Language Development: Foundations, Processes, and Clinical Applications

By: Brian B. Shulman,Nina Capone Singleton

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Language Development: Foundations, Processes, and Clinical Applications

By: Brian B. Shulman,Nina Capone Singleton

Your ideal textbook for undergraduate speech-langauge curriculum courses in language development and language acquisition! This comprehensive resource, written by experts in the field, offers an accessible overview of language development to the undergraduate student. The book's 15 chapters are divided into two parts: Basis of Language and Communication Development and Language and Communication Development. A key feature of the book are the clinical practice applications, which will help your students prepare for the situations they will face in their careers. Companion Web site with the following helpful resources: Instructor Resources: PowerpointTM Slides, Discussion Questions, Chapter Quizzes, TestBank, and Assignments and Activities. Student Resources: Flash Cards, Crossword Puzzles, and an Interactive Glossary.

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Jones & Bartlett Publishers

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1449659705

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Language Development

By: Nina Capone Singleton,Brian B. Shulman

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Language Development

By: Nina Capone Singleton,Brian B. Shulman

Language Development: Foundations, Processes, and Clinical Applications, Third Edition coalesces the necessary knowledge of language development with evidence and clinical practice. Contributed by experts in the field, the Third Edition provides the student with specific clinical applications using skill-based information related to assessment and intervention. Featuring a chapter dedicated solely to the comprehension of language, this edition also covers language development from unique perspectives, such as multicultural/ lingual home, international adoption, the child with cochlear implants and other sensorydevices, and the child with multiple disabilities

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Jones & Bartlett Learning

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Language Development

Foundations, Processes, and Clinical Applications

By: Brian Shulman,Nina Capone

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Language Development

Foundations, Processes, and Clinical Applications

By: Brian Shulman,Nina Capone

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Language Development: Foundations, Processes, and Clinical Applications

By: Nina Capone Singleton,Brian B. Shulman

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Language Development: Foundations, Processes, and Clinical Applications

By: Nina Capone Singleton,Brian B. Shulman

Language Development: Foundations, Processes, and Clinical Applications, Second Edition provides an accessible overview of language development covering the typical course of language development within the clinical context of language assessment and intervention. The Second Edition examines the biological, developmental, and environmental systems of neurotypical children, and the role of these systems as linguistic input in the child’s environment contributing to language development. This comprehensive resource, written and contributed by over 20 experts in the field, provides students with an understanding of the foundations of language development in terms of each individual child’s communication needs. With case studies woven throughout the text, students are able to follow the progress of children with normal language development as well as those showing signs of problems. These cases and clinical practice applications will help students prepare for the clinical challenges they will face in their professional careers. Every year, new information, new theories, and new evidence are published about development to explain the complexities that create and facilitate the language acquisition process. The authors who have contributed to this text provide the latest research and perspectives on language development among neurotypical children. This valuable text bridges biological, environmental, technological, and professional venues to advance the development of professionals and children alike. What’s new in the Second Edition? • New chapter on syntactic development including morphology • New chapter covering school-age language • New case study highlighting school-age language • Expanded content on morphology including morphological analysis Instructor Resources: PowerPoint Presentations, Test Bank Student Resources: Companion Website Every new copy of the text includes an access code for the companion website. eBook offerings do not include an access code.

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Aspect and the Categorization of States

The case of ser and estar in Spanish

By: David Brian Roby

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Aspect and the Categorization of States

The case of ser and estar in Spanish

By: David Brian Roby

In this work, the Spanish copulae ser and estar are argued to be aspectual morphemes. Their binary opposition reflects the universal aspectual values [±Perfective], which are the same ones overtly expressed by the preterite and imperfect past tense forms in Spanish. It can therefore be shown that different types of states, just like different types of events, can be categorized based on their aspectual composition. Additionally, the inherent semantic differences between events and states can be accounted for by analyzing aspect as applying to events internally and to states externally. A useful resource for the beginning linguist as well as the most seasoned analyst, this work is written in language that is easy to understand while remaining faithful to all of the appropriate relevant technical terminology. Anyone who is seriously interested in exploring why the Spanish verbs ser and estar are used the way they are should read this book.

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John Benjamins Publishing

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9027288941

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Irish Official Publications

A Guide to Republic of Ireland Papers, with a Breviate of Reports 1922–1972

By: Arthur Maltby,Brian McKenna

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Irish Official Publications

A Guide to Republic of Ireland Papers, with a Breviate of Reports 1922–1972

By: Arthur Maltby,Brian McKenna

Guides to Official Publications, Volume 7: Irish Official Publications provides a compilation of guidelines and summaries concerning Irish official publications. This book examines the bibliographical mysteries surrounding Republic of Ireland government publications. Organized into 10 classes, this book begins with an overview of the various categories of Irish official publications. This text then indicates how Irish official publications may be traced and acquired, and lists some libraries with good collections. This book discusses as well some important background information in terms and symbols and specimen pages are included to illustrate the transition of a serial from the British to the Free State administration. The reader is also introduced to the weekly and annual lists of government publications together with an example of a State-sponsored document. This book is a valuable resource for students and teachers.

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Elsevier

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1483188825

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Experience-Based Language Acquisition

A Computational Model of Human Language Acquisition

By: Brian E. Pangburn

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Experience-Based Language Acquisition

A Computational Model of Human Language Acquisition

By: Brian E. Pangburn

Almost from the very beginning of the digital age, people have sought better ways to communicate with computers. This research investigates how computers might be enabled to understand natural language in a more humanlike way. Based, in part, on cognitive development in infants, we introduce an open computational framework for visual perception and grounded language acquisition called Experience-Based Language Acquisition (EBLA). EBLA can watch a series of short videos and acquire a simple language of nouns and verbs corresponding to the objects and object-object relations in those videos. Upon acquiring this protolanguage, EBLA can perform basic scene analysis to generate descriptions of novel videos. The general architecture of EBLA is comprised of three stages: vision processing, entity extraction, and lexical resolution. In the vision processing stage, EBLA processes the individual frames in short videos, using a variation of the mean shift analysis image segmentation algorithm to identify and store information about significant objects. In the entity extraction stage, EBLA abstracts information about the significant objects in each video and the relationships among those objects into internal representations called entities. Finally, in the lexical acquisition stage, EBLA extracts the individual lexemes (words) from simple descriptions of each video and attempts to generate entity-lexeme mappings using an inference technique called cross-situational learning. EBLA is not primed with a base lexicon, so it faces the task of bootstrapping its lexicon from scratch.

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Universal-Publishers

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1581121717

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Motor Learning and Development

By: Pamela S. Beach,Melanie Perreault,Ali Brian,Douglas H. Collier

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Motor Learning and Development

By: Pamela S. Beach,Melanie Perreault,Ali Brian,Douglas H. Collier

Motor Learning and Development, Third Edition With HKPropel Access, unites two subdisciplines of motor behavior to provide an understanding of how humans acquire and develop movement skills throughout the life span. It prepares students to create, apply, and evaluate motor skill programs

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Human Kinetics

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1718211716

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The CHILDES Project: The database

By: Brian MacWhinney

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The CHILDES Project: The database

By: Brian MacWhinney

The CD-Rom includes the transcript files described in volume II"--Page 4 of cover.

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Psychology Press

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0805835725

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Childes - Bib

An Annotated Bibliography of Child Language and Language Disorders

By: Roy Higginson,Brian MacWhinney

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Childes - Bib

An Annotated Bibliography of Child Language and Language Disorders

By: Roy Higginson,Brian MacWhinney

Covering North American research since late 1990 and international research published since 1970, the CHILDES/BIB 1994 Supplement adds another 3,000 references to the original work and brings the total number of references up to approximately 10,400. This supplement includes keywords and indicates the language in which the text is written.

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Lawrence Erlbaum Assoc Incorporated

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0805816011

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9780805816013

CHILDES/BIB

An Annotated Bibliography of Child Language and Language Disorders : 1997 Supplement

By: Roy Higginson,Brian MacWhinney

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CHILDES/BIB

An Annotated Bibliography of Child Language and Language Disorders : 1997 Supplement

By: Roy Higginson,Brian MacWhinney

Featuring approximately 2,700 references, this supplement extends the previous volumes, CHILDES/BIB - 1991 (LEA) and the CHILDES/BIB - 1994 Supplement (LEA), to a total of more than 13,000 references. All of the entries have keyword annotations, and many of them include lengthier abstracts. This new volume includes a categorical listing of the complete set of keywords used in the CHILDES/BIB system. The keywords appear at the end of each citation--prior to the abstract if one is available--along with a notation indicating the language in which the text is written if it is not English.

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0805824111

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Language Development: Foundations, Processes, and Clinical Applications

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