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Bertolo, Stefano, Ed. – 2001
This book has been conceived as a companion to learnability for the benefit of those linguists who base their work on Chomsky's "Principles and Parameters Hypothesis." General concepts from formal theory and complexity theory and important facts from psycholinguistics, historical linguistics, and language processing have been introduced…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Diachronic Linguistics, Grammar, Language Acquisition
Cooper, Robert L., Ed.; Shohamy, Elana, Ed.; Walters, Joel, Ed. – 2001
This edited volume contains 15 chapters. Part one, "Language Teaching, Language Learning, and Literacy," has three chapters: "The Monolingual Teaching and Bilingual Learning of English" (Henry G. Widdowson); "Literacy: The Extension of Languages Through Other Means" (Ellen Bialystok); "Bilingual Processing…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Arabic, Diachronic Linguistics, Diglossia
Fox, Barbara A., Ed.; Jurafsky, Dan, Ed.; Michaelis, Laura A., Ed. – 1999
Selected papers include: "From Core to Periphery: A Study on the Directionality of Syntactic Change in Japanese" (Kaoru Horie); "On the Extension of Body-Part Nouns to Object-Part Nouns and Spatial Adpositions" (Yo Matsumoto); "Noun Classes: Language Change and Learning" (Maria Polinsky, Dan Jackson);…
Descriptors: Adjectives, Bikol, Caregiver Speech, Child Language
Hashemipour, Peggy, Ed.; Maldonado, Ricardo, Ed.; van Naerssen, Margaret, Ed. – 1995
Essays on Spanish linguistics and related topics are dedicated to linguist Tracy D. Terrell. An introductory section gives a brief biography and a list of his publications. Essays include: "The Natural Approach to Language Teaching: An Update" (Tracy D. Terrell); "Two Mad, Mad, Mad Worlds: Notes on Natural Approach and the Writing…
Descriptors: Biographies, Classroom Techniques, Communication Apprehension, Communicative Competence (Languages)