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Hardback. Develops core elements of the Wittgenstein's conception of philosophy, putting them to work to 'dissolve' the problem, proving it ill-framed by clarifying the questions posing it and breaking the spell of mistaken analogies that inform it. This book is useful to professional philosophers and advanced undergraduates alike. Series: Philosophical Studies Series. Num Pages: 207 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 14. Weight in Grams: 482.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 207
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792361244
- ISBN
- 9780792361244
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€ 126.58
€ 126.58
Cross-Linguistic Perspectives on Language Processing
. Ed(S): Vincenzi, Marica De; Lombardo, Vince...
hardcover. Addresses fundamental issues about the representational primitives of the parsing system and the motivations for the essential characteristics of the parser. This volume also discusses important methodological issues in cross-linguistic research, such as the choices of linguistic material and experimental procedures. Editor(s): Vincenzi, Marica De; Lombardo, Vincenzo. Series: Studies in Theoretical Psycholinguistics. Num Pages: 260 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 15. Weight in Grams: 559.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Edition
- 2000th Edition
- Number of pages
- 260
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792361466
- ISBN
- 9780792361466
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€ 127.88
€ 127.88
Hardback. Represents a case study in the study of the prosody and syntax interactions. Series: Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory. Num Pages: 227 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2ADT; CFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 14. Weight in Grams: 520.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 227
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792362401
- ISBN
- 9780792362401
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€ 127.16
€ 127.16
Hardback. Investigates two specific linguistic phenomena from the point of view of first- and second-language acquisition. This volume fills gap in providing a collection of articles which focus on language acquisition but at the same time address the overarching syntactic issues involved. Editor(s): Powers, Susan M.; Hamann, Cornelia. Series: Studies in Theoretical Psycholinguistics. Num Pages: 514 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFDC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 33. Weight in Grams: 936.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 514
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792362494
- ISBN
- 9780792362494
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€ 249.68
€ 249.68
Hardback. This work offers a survey of methods and techniques for structuring, acquiring and maintaining lexical resources for speech and language processing. The first chapter offers a survey of computational lexicography, with further chapters providing greater detail. Editor(s): Eynde, Frank Von; Gibbon, Dafydd. Series: Text, Speech and Language Technology. Num Pages: 312 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CF; UYQL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 19. Weight in Grams: 620.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792363682
- ISBN
- 9780792363682
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€ 192.20
€ 192.20
Hardback. Presents a study of the syntax-semantics interface focusing on the structure of the subject-predicate relation. This book argues that there is syntactic constraint that clauses (small and tensed) are constructed out of a one-place unsaturated expression, the predicate, which must be applied to a syntactic argument, its subject. Series: Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy. Num Pages: 367 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 2CSJ; CFG; CFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 244 x 170 x 22. Weight in Grams: 698.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 367
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792364092
- ISBN
- 9780792364092
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€ 193.29
€ 193.29
Hardback. Based on an edition published in 1992 in Bulgarian, this book offers a specific approach to controversial problems in linguistics. It states that aspect is the result of a complex interplay between the referents of verbs and nouns in the sentence. It also talks about the role nouns and noun phrases play in the explication of aspect in English. Series: Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy. Num Pages: 374 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; CFG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 22. Weight in Grams: 708.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 374
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792365389
- ISBN
- 9780792365389
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€ 193.46
€ 193.46
Hardback. Addresses themes such as techniques for the alignment of parallel texts at various levels such as sentence, clause, and word; the use of parallel texts in fields as diverse as translation, lexicography, and information retrieval; and available corpus resources and the evaluation of alignment methods. Editor(s): Veronis, Jean. Series: Text, Speech and Language Technology. Num Pages: 403 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFP. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 23. Weight in Grams: 785.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 403
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792365464
- ISBN
- 9780792365464
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Condition: New
€ 247.51
€ 247.51
Paperback. Discusses Davidsonian and neo-Davidsonian event analyses of verbs and verbal roles. This book also discusses theories of semantic plurality, focussing on the analysis of collective, distributive and cumulative readings. It develops a neo-Davidsonian theory of events and plurality, a theory of event-maximalization, and a theory of scopal relations. Series: Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy. Num Pages: 396 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: CFG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 240 x 160 x 20. Weight in Grams: 559.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Edition
- Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2000
- Number of pages
- 396
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792365693
- ISBN
- 9780792365693
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Condition: New
€ 69.31
€ 69.31
Hardback. Contains contributions by 15 internationally recognized experts including M Beckman, N Campbell, C Gussenhoven, D Hirst, DR Ladd, M Ostendorf, and others. This book offers investigators in various areas of speech communication (phonetics, phonology, speech technology) with a comprehensive presentation of contemporary prosodic research. Editor(s): Horne, Merle. Series: Text, Speech and Language Technology. Num Pages: 358 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 22. Weight in Grams: 698.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 358
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792365792
- ISBN
- 9780792365792
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€ 193.29
€ 193.29
Hardback. Covers the main aspects of intonation, written by international researchers in the field. This title organises chapters into five thematic sections such as: Overview of Intonation, Prominence and Focus, Boundaries and Discourse, Intonation Modelling and Intonation Technology. Editor(s): Botinis, Antonis. Series: Text, Speech and Language Technology. Num Pages: 397 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 244 x 170 x 23. Weight in Grams: 752.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 397
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792366058
- ISBN
- 9780792366058
Hardback
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€ 194.05
€ 194.05
Hardback. Parsing technology is concerned with finding syntactic structure in language. This work gives an overview of research and development in parsing technologies. It details how probabilistic methods are used in computational linguistics so they can be applied in parsing theory and practice. Editor(s): Bunt, Harry; Nijholt, Anton. Series: Text, Speech and Language Technology. Num Pages: 282 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 17. Weight in Grams: 586.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 282
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792366164
- ISBN
- 9780792366164
Hardback
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€ 128.12
€ 128.12
Hardback. This volume focuses on diachronic morphology, and shows, in a number of articles by specialists, how complicated morphological systems develop in the course of time. In addition, this volume deals with a number of issues in theoretical morphology and discusses morphology in sign language. Editor(s): Booij, Geert; Marle, Jaap van. Series: Yearbook of Morphology. Num Pages: 321 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFD; CFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 19. Weight in Grams: 642.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 321
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792366317
- ISBN
- 9780792366317
Hardback
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€ 192.51
€ 192.51
Paperback. Covers the main aspects of intonation. This volume is suitable for students of advanced undergraduate to postgraduate and research levels and individual researchers within a variety of disciplines, such as Experimental Phonetics, General and Computational Linguistics, Computer Science, and Speech-Language Engineering. Editor(s): Botinis, Antonis. Series: Text, Speech and Language Technology. Num Pages: 397 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 240 x 160 x 21. Weight in Grams: 570.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Edition
- Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2000
- Number of pages
- 397
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792367239
- ISBN
- 9780792367239
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 191.51
€ 191.51
hardcover. This volume addresses robustness issues at the speech recognition and natural language parsing levels, with a focus on feature extraction and noise robust recognition, adaptive systems, language modelling, parsing, and natural language understanding. Editor(s): Junqua, Jean-Claude; Noord, Gertjan Van. Series: Text, Speech and Language Technology. Num Pages: 278 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CF; UYQL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 17. Weight in Grams: 581.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Edition
- 2001st Edition
- Number of pages
- 278
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792367901
- ISBN
- 9780792367901
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Condition: New
€ 128.03
€ 128.03
Hardback. Provides both young and senior scientists with a comparative view of theoretical models of text production. This book is of interest to people working in teaching of writing or studying this specific human activity. Series: Studies in Writing. Num Pages: 269 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFD; JMR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 590.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 269
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792369806
- ISBN
- 9780792369806
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€ 123.62
€ 123.62
Hardback. The Logic of Metaphor uses techniques from possible worlds semantics to provide formal truth-conditions for many grammatical classes of metaphors. This book treats lexicon as a conceptual network with semantics provided by an intensional predicate calculus. It shows how to extend deductive and adductive inference systems so as to handle metaphors. Series: Synthese Library. Num Pages: 256 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; CFA; HPL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 15. Weight in Grams: 542.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792370048
- ISBN
- 9780792370048
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€ 127.40
€ 127.40
Hardcover. A comprehensive introduction to the statistical analysis of word frequency distributions. It is suitable for computational linguists, corpus linguists, psycholinguists, and researchers in the field of quantitative stylistics. Series: Text, Speech and Language Technology. Num Pages: 335 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFF; UYQL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 242 x 165 x 33. Weight in Grams: 674.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Springer
- Edition
- 2001st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792370178
- ISBN
- 9780792370178
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 192.98
€ 192.98
hardcover. This series is devoted to topics which are central to the theoretical debates which underpin the subject of morphology. This particular volume examines the ways in which morphological features can be expressed in the grammar of natural languages, both by morphological and syntactic devices. Editor(s): Booij, Geert; Marle, Jaap van. Series: Yearbook of Morphology. Num Pages: 332 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFH; CFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 297 x 210 x 20. Weight in Grams: 659.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Kluwer Boston Incorporated United States
- Edition
- 2001st Edition
- Number of pages
- 332
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792370826
- ISBN
- 9780792370826
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Condition: New
€ 245.82
€ 245.82
Hardback. Verb-second languages like German and Dutch display the verb-final pattern in embedded clauses, which can be confusing for a developing child. This book addresses this problem in the context of Swiss German, itself a Germanic dialect. Series: Studies in Theoretical Psycholinguistics. Num Pages: 412 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2ACZ; CFDC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 771.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 412
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792370864
- ISBN
- 9780792370864
Hardback
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€ 124.74
€ 124.74
Paperback. Provides both young and senior scientists with a comparative view of theoretical models of text production. This title includes models that are clearly situated in their historical context, scrutinized in their further evolution with a fine-grained observation of differences between models. Series: Studies in Writing. Num Pages: 269 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFD; JMR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 240 x 160 x 14. Weight in Grams: 457.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Edition
- Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2001
- Number of pages
- 269
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792371595
- ISBN
- 9780792371595
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 122.75
€ 122.75
Paperback. Most linguistic theories assume that each grammatical relation is established in a unique structural configuration. The authors take issue with this view, arguing for a more flexible approach on the basis of conceptual considerations and data taken mostly, but not exclusively, from the Germanic languages. Series: Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory. Num Pages: 253 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFA; CFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 240 x 160 x 14. Weight in Grams: 391.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Edition
- Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1999
- Number of pages
- 253
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792371991
- ISBN
- 9780792371991
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 125.31
€ 125.31
Hardback. Presents a series of psycholinguistic investigations on consonantal distinctions in Finnish and Japanese. This work describes differences in adult production, perception, and child acquisition of these distinctions. It is suitable for those interested in developments, in theoretical and psycholinguistics. Num Pages: 172 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2FCF; 2GJ; CFD; CFF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 12. Weight in Grams: 980.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 172
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792372165
- ISBN
- 9780792372165
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 126.07
€ 126.07
Hardback. Provides a resource for the critical discussion of issues in learning to read Chinese from a child acquisition perspective. It features combined contributions from researchers in Asian studies, linguistics, psycholinguistics, psychology, reading and education. Editor(s): Li, Wenling; Gaffney, Janet S.; Packard, Jerome L. Num Pages: 266 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2GDC; CFDC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate; (XV) Technical / Manuals. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 17. Weight in Grams: 576.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 266
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792375432
- ISBN
- 9780792375432
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.92
€ 127.92