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    ISBN: 9783319709819
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XIX, 175 p, online resource)
    Series Statement: Easy English!
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
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    Keywords: English language ; Lexicology ; Language and education ; Linguistics
    Abstract: Whatever your mother tongue, you are likely to have encountered difficulties with most of the 50 vocabulary items in this book. Each chapter contains: Examples of typical mistakes. Examples of correct usage. Rules / explanations. A short exercise where you can immediately practise what you have learned. Additional exercises (including false friends) By completing the exercises in this book, you should be able to eliminate some of the most common vocabulary mistakes that non-native speakers of English tend to make. Easy English! is a series of books to help you learn and revise your English with minimal effort. You can improve your English by reading texts in English that you might well normally read in your own language e.g. jokes, personality tests, lateral thinking games, wordsearches. doing short exercises to improve specific areas grammar and vocabulary, i.e. the areas that tend to lead to the most mistakes - the aim is just to focus on what you really need rather than overwhelming yourself with a mass of rules, many of which may have no practical daily value Other books in the Easy English!series include: Wordsearches: Widen Your Vocabulary in English Test Your Personality: Have Fun and Learn Useful Phrases Word games, Riddles and Logic Tests: Tax Your Brain and Boost Your English Top 50 Grammar Mistakes: How to Avoid Them Top 50 Vocabulary Mistakes: How to Avoid Them
    Abstract: Part I Top 50 Vocabulary Mistakes -- PartII Revision Tests -- Part III False Friends
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    ISBN: 9783319709840
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XIX, 176 p, online resource)
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
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    Keywords: Grammar ; English language ; Language and education ; Linguistics
    Abstract: This book focuses on the most commonly made grammar mistakes by non-native English speakers. This means that you can set yourself a reasonable target. So rather than trying to learn all English grammar, just concentrate on those issues that tend to be used the most frequently and/or tend to create the most misunderstandings. Each chapter contains: Examples of typical mistakes. Examples of correct usage. Rules / explanations. A short exercise where you can immediately practise what you have learned. Additional exercises. Keys to all exercises. The book also contains a Teachers Introduction. Easy English! is a series of books to help you learn and revise your English with minimal effort. You can improve your English by reading texts in English that you might well normally read in your own language e.g. jokes, personality tests, lateral thinking games, wordsearches. doing short exercises to improve specific areas grammar and vocabulary, i.e. the areas that tend to lead to the most mistakes - the aim is just to focus on what you really need rather than overwhelming yourself with a mass of rules, many of which may have no practical daily value Other books in the Easy English!series include: Wordsearches: Widen Your Vocabulary in English Test Your Personality: Have Fun and Learn Useful Phrases Word games, Riddles and Logic Tests: Tax Your Brain and Boost Your English Top 50 Grammar Mistakes: How to Avoid Them Top 50 Vocabulary Mistakes: How to Avoid Them
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    ISBN: 9783319672267
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XVII, 164 p, online resource)
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    Keywords: Grammar ; English language ; Lexicology ; Language and education ; Linguistics
    Abstract: Personality tests are relatively quick and easy to read, and are thus great for improving your English vocabulary and knowledge of idiomatic expressions. These quizzes were designed primarily to enable you to: learn some useful English vocabulary (of the type that is often not taught in a language course) have fun doing something in English that you might equally well have done in your own language This book is NOT intended to be an amateur psychology book or self-help book. Neither the quizzes nor the explanations should be taken any more seriously than you would take a horoscope in a newspaper or magazine. In addition to the personality tests there are: glossaries of key words scores and interpretations vocabulary exercises Easy English! is a series of books to help you learn and revise your English with minimal effort. You can improve your English by reading texts in English that you might well normally read in your own language e.g. jokes, personality tests, lateral thinking games, wordsearches. doing short exercises to improve specific areas grammar and vocabulary, i.e. the areas that tend to lead to the most mistakes - the aim is just to focus on what you really need rather than overwhelming yourself with a mass of rules, many of which may have no practical daily value Other books in the Easy English!series include: Wordsearches: Widen Your Vocabulary in English Test Your Personality: Have Fun and Learn Useful Phrases Word games, Riddles and Logic Tests: Tax Your Brain and Boost Your English Top 50 Grammar Mistakes: How to Avoid Them Top 50 Vocabulary Mistakes: How to Avoid Them
    Abstract: General Traits -- Risks and Sensations -- Confidence Levels -- Trust, Honesty, Altruism and Ambition -- Health and Body -- Image, Imagination and Communication -- Friends, Family and Partners -- Logic and Reasoning -- Work -- Effectiveness in work environment -- Managerial Skills -- Miscellaneous
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    ISBN: 9783319672328
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XXIII, 174 p. 86 illus, online resource)
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
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    Keywords: English language ; Lexicology ; Language and education ; Linguistics
    Abstract: On the train, on the beach, on the sofa .. many people in all parts of the world enjoy doing wordsearches. If you are studying English and want to learn and practise vocabulary related to various topics, then this book is for you! The topics reflect the kinds of everyday conversations that you might have both with native and non-native speakers of English. The topics are also those that are typically tested in English examinations e.g.TOEFL, Cambridge (First Certificate, Advanced), IELTS, and Trinity. Each chapter begins with a list of questions to enable you to have a conversation about a particular topic in various situations: on a social occasion (e.g. a work dinner, a conference lunch, a party); in the classroom during an English lesson; when chatting, either face to face or online; and during an English oral exam. After the list of questions, you will find a Word List associated with the topic and exercises to test your knowledge of less common words. The final aim is then to find the words from the Word List in the related Wordsearch. Easy English! is a series of books to help you learn and revise your English with minimal effort. You can improve your English by: reading texts in English that you might normally read in your own language e.g. jokes, personality tests, lateral thinking games, and wordsearches; doing short exercises to improve specific areas grammar and vocabulary, i.e. the areas that tend to lead to the most mistakes - the aim is just to focus on what you really need rather than overwhelming yourself with a mass of rules, many of which may have no practical daily value. Other books in the Easy English!series include: Wordsearches: Widen Your Vocabulary in English Test Your Personality: Have Fun and Learn Useful Phrases Word games, Riddles and Logic Tests: Tax Your Brain and Boost Your English Top 50 Grammar Mistakes: How to Avoid Them Top 50 Vocabulary Mistakes: How to Avoid Them
    Abstract: Body, Appearance, Health -- Business and Finance -- Education and Work -- Family, House and Home -- Cooking and Food -- Free Time -- Technology -- Language -- Places, Travel and Transport -- Crime, Politics and Religion -- Time and Environment
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    ISBN: 9783319672472
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XXVII, 136 p, online resource)
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
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    Keywords: Grammar ; English language ; Lexicology ; Language and education ; Linguistics
    Abstract: Jokes are a perfect format for learning vocabulary, idiomatic expressions, and grammar. Jokes are also designed to be retold. If you learn a joke by heart and tell it to other people, then by doing so you will also learn the grammar and vocabulary involved. The book also contains exercises designed to reveal whether you have understood the joke or not: A joke is presented to you but with the paragraphs mixed up. Your task is to put them in the correct order. The joke has a choice of three punch lines. If you select the correct one, this should be an indicator that you have understood the joke. Several two-line jokes are presented together. The task is to match the first line and the second line. A joke is presented with some key words missing. The task is to insert the right word in the right place. Easy English! is a series of books to help you learn and revise your English with minimal effort. You can improve your English by reading texts in English that you might well normally read in your own language e.g. jokes, personality tests, lateral thinking games, wordsearches. doing short exercises to improve specific areas grammar and vocabulary, i.e. the areas that tend to lead to the most mistakes - the aim is just to focus on what you really need rather than overwhelming yourself with a mass of rules, many of which may have no practical daily value Other books in the Easy English! series include: Wordsearches: Widen Your Vocabulary in English Test Your Personality: Have Fun and Learn Useful Phrases Word games, Riddles and Logic Tests: Tax Your Brain and Boost Your English Top 50 Grammar Mistakes: How to Avoid Them Top 50 Vocabulary Mistakes: How to Avoid Them
    Abstract: Animals, Bars and Food -- Doctors -- Drunks, idiots and husbands -- Knock Knock -- Professions -- Men and Women -- School -- Light Bulbs, Waiters, What's the Difference?
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    ISBN: 9783319672410
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XVII, 159 p, online resource)
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
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    Keywords: Grammar ; English language ; Lexicology ; Language and education ; Linguistics
    Abstract: This book contains exercises connected with some of the fun or more unusual aspects of the English languageand with games that typically a native English speaker would do. The games have been adapted into a manageable format, but the actual vocabulary contained has not been changed. The types of games include: lateral thinking games, riddles, logic tests, anagrams, palindromes, proverbs, limericks, word ladders, tongue twisters, plus a whole host of other word-related games. Easy English! is a series of books to help you learn and revise your English with minimal effort. You can improve your English by reading texts in English that you might well normally read in your own language e.g. jokes, personality tests, lateral thinking games, wordsearches. doing short exercises to improve specific areas grammar and vocabulary, i.e. the areas that tend to lead to the most mistakes - the aim is just to focus on what you really need rather than overwhelming yourself with a mass of rules, many of which may have no practical daily value Other books in the Easy English!series include: Wordsearches: Widen Your Vocabulary in English Test Your Personality: Have Fun and Learn Useful Phrases Word games, Riddles and Logic Tests: Tax Your Brain and Boost Your English Top 50 Grammar Mistakes: How to Avoid Them Top 50 Vocabulary Mistakes: How to Avoid Them
    Abstract: Introduction to the games, riddles and verses used in this book -- Riddles -- Rhyming forms -- Numbers -- Acronymns -- Funny book titles -- Riddles -- Irregular verbs -- Word Ladder -- Grammar challenge
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    ISBN: 9783319263304
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XVIII, 284 p. 6 illus. in color, online resource)
    Edition: 2nd ed. 2016
    Series Statement: English for Academic Research
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    Parallel Title: Druckausg.
    Keywords: Grammar ; English language ; Language and education ; Linguistics ; Englisch ; Präsentation ; Internationale Konferenz
    Abstract: Good presentation skills are key to a successful career in academia. This guide provides examples taken from real presentations given both by native and non-native academics covering a wide variety of disciplines. The easy-to-follow guidelines and tips will teach you how to: plan, prepare and practice a well-organized, interesting presentation avoid errors in English by using short easy-to-say sentences improve your English pronunciation and intonation gain confidence, and overcome nerves and embarrassment highlight the essential points you want your audience to remember attract and retain audience attention deal with questions from the audience This new edition contains several additional features, including stimulating factoids and discussion points both for self-study and in-class use. New chapters also cover: 〈learning from="" talks="" on="" tednetworking with potential collaborators, professors, fellow researchers interacting successfully with non-native audiences posters EAP teachers will find this book to be a great source of tips for training students, and for preparing both instructive and entertaining lessons. Other books in the series cover: writing research papers; English grammar, usage, and style; academic correspondence; interacting on campus; plus exercises books and a teacher's guide. Please visit http://www.springer.com/series/13913 for a full list of titles in the series. Adrian Wallwork is the author of more than 30 ELT and EAP textbooks. He has trained several thousand PhD students and academics from 35 countries to write research papers, prepare presentations, and communicate with editors, referees and fellow researchers
    Abstract: 1. The importance of presentations -- 2. TED and learning from others -- 3. Why you should write out your speech -- 4. Writing the text of your slides -- 5. Visual Elements and Fonts -- 6. Ten ways to Begin a Presentation -- 7. Agenda and Transitions -- 8. Methodology -- 9. Results and Discussion -- 10. Conclusions -- 11. Questions and Answers -- 12. Attracting Audiences and Keeping their Attention -- 13. Handling your Nerves -- 14. Pronunciation and Intonation -- 15. Rehearsing and Self-assessment -- 16. Networking: Preparation for social events -- 17. Networking: Successful informal meetings -- 18. Posters -- 19. Advice for native English speakers on how to present at international conferences and run workshops -- 20. Useful Phrases
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    ISBN: 9783319287348
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XVI, 240 p, online resource)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2016
    Series Statement: English for Academic Research
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    Parallel Title: Druckausg.
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    Keywords: Grammar ; English language ; Language and education ; Linguistics ; Linguistics ; Grammar ; English language ; Language and education ; Hochschule ; Auslandsstudium ; Englisch
    Abstract: 1. Living in Another Country and Dealing with Cultural Differences -- 2. Relationships with Fellow Students -- 3. Communicating face-to-face with professors -- 4. Communicating with professors via email -- 5. Participating in Lectures, Tutorials, Meetings, Workshops, and Seminars -- 6. Listening and Questioning during Lectures -- 7. Successful Conversations and Discussions -- 8. Telephoning -- 9. What to say when you don't understand what someone has said -- 10. Improving Your Pronunciation -- 11. Improve your English with Audiovisual Resources -- 12. Automatic Translation: Pros and Cons -- 13. Smileys, Acronyms, Txt Messg -- 14. Useful Phrases -- 15. Mini Grammar. .
    Abstract: This volume covers the day-to-day activities of a non-native English speaking student carrying out research, attending lectures, socializing, and living in a foreign country. Whether on a US campus as a foreign student, or in a non-English speaking country where classes are given in English, this book will help students build confidence in interacting with professors and fellow students.
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    ISBN: 9781402068218
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (digital)
    Series Statement: Text, Speech and Language Technology 39
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    Parallel Title: Buchausg. u.d.T. Recent trends in discourse and dialogue
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    Keywords: Computer science ; Artificial intelligence ; Computational linguistics ; Linguistics ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Dialog ; Konversationsanalyse ; Diskursanalyse
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  • 10
    ISBN: 9781402030758
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XXVIII, 403 p, digital)
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    Series Statement: Text, Speech and Language Technology 28
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    Parallel Title: Buchausg. u.d.T. Spoken multimodal human-computer dialogue in mobile environments
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    Keywords: Linguistics ; Multimedia systems ; Computer science ; Translators (Computer programs) ; Computational linguistics ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Mensch ; Computer ; Dialog ; Mensch-Maschine-Kommunikation ; Mobile Computing
    Abstract: Issues in Multimodal Spoken Dialogue Systems and Components -- Multimodal Dialogue Systems -- Speech Recognition Technology in Multimodal/Ubiquitous Computing Environments -- A Robust Multimodal Speech Recognition Method using Optical Flow Analysis -- Feature Functions for Tree-Based Dialogue Course Management -- A Reasoning Component for Information-Seeking and Planning Dialogues -- A Model for Multimodal Dialogue System Output Applied to an Animated Talking Head -- System Architecture and Example Implemesntations -- Overview of System Architecture -- XISL: A Modality-Independent MMI Description Language -- A Path to Multimodal Data Services for Telecommunications -- Multimodal Spoken Dialogue with Wireless Devices -- The Smartkom Mobile Car Prototype System for Flexible Human-Machine Communication -- LARRI: A Language-Based Maintenance and Repair Assistant -- Evaluation and Usability -- Overview of Evaluation and Usability -- Evaluating Dialogue Strategies in Multimodal Dialogue Systems -- Enhancing the Usability of Multimodal Virtual Co-drivers -- Design, Implementation and Evaluation of the SENECA Spoken Language Dialogue System -- Segmenting Route Descriptions for Mobile Devices -- Effects of Prolonged Use on the Usability of a Multimodal Form-Filling Interface -- User Multitasking with Mobile Multimodal Systems -- Speech Convergence with Animated Personas
    Abstract: This book is based on publications from the ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Multi-Modal Dialogue in Mobile Environments held at Kloster Irsee, Germany, in 2002. The workshop covered various aspects of devel- ment and evaluation of spoken multimodal dialogue systems and components with particular emphasis on mobile environments, and discussed the state-- the-art within this area. On the development side the major aspects addressed include speech recognition, dialogue management, multimodal output gene- tion, system architectures, full applications, and user interface issues. On the evaluation side primarily usability evaluation was addressed. A number of high quality papers from the workshop were selected to form the basis of this book. The volume is divided into three major parts which group together the ov- all aspects covered by the workshop. The selected papers have all been - tended, reviewed and improved after the workshop to form the backbone of the book. In addition, we have supplemented each of the three parts by an invited contribution intended to serve as an overview chapter
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    ISBN: 9789401147088
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xxiii, 370 p)
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    Series Statement: Einstein Meets Magritte: An Interdisciplinary Reflection on Science, Nature, Art, Human Action and Society 4
    Keywords: Humanities ; Logic ; Metaphysics ; Philosophy ; Science Philosophy ; Religion—Philosophy. ; Science—Philosophy. ; Logic. ; Metaphysics.
    Abstract: This book considers philosophy to be more than mere reflection. Through philosophy, humankind can give meaning to the world. In part, this book re-evaluates the philosophy of Leo Apostel, who dedicated his life to the investigation of the use of philosophy in everyday life. But it is also a presentation of international research carried out along the lines of the worldviews project. The contributions address not only professional philosophers, but also students, teachers, academics and everyone interested in the relationship between philosophy and the world
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    Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands | Dordrecht : Imprint: Springer
    ISBN: 9789401158145
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xxi, 466 p) , ill
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    Series Statement: Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy 65
    Keywords: Linguistics ; Computational linguistics ; Semantics ; Grammar, Comparative and general Syntax ; Language and languages—Philosophy. ; Linguistics. ; Semiotics. ; Grammar, Comparative and general—Syntax. ; Computational linguistics.
    Abstract: Ways of Scope Taking is concerned with syntactic, semantic and computational aspects of scope. Its starting point is the well-known but often neglected fact that different types of quantifiers interact differently with each other and other operators. The theoretical examination of significant bodies of data, both old and novel, leads to two central claims. (1) Scope is a by-product of a set of distinct Logical Form processes; each quantifier participates in those that suit its particular features. (2) Scope interaction is further constrained by the semantics of the interacting operators. The arguments are developed using Minimalist syntax, Generalized Quantify theory, Discourse Representation Theory, and algebraic semantics. The contributors (Beghelli, Ben-Shalom, Doetjes, Farkas, Gutiérrez Rexach, Honcoop, Stabler, Stowell, Szabolcsi and Zwarts) make tightly related theoretical assumptions and focus on related empirical phenomena, which include the direct and inverse scope of quantifiers, distributivity, negation, modal and intensional contexts, weak islands, event-related readings, interrogatives, wh/quantifier interactions, and Hungarian syntax. An introduction to the formal semantics background is provided. Audience: Linguists, philosophers, computational and psycholinguists; advanced undergraduates, graduate students and researchers in these fields
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    ISBN: 9789401120104
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xxiv, 394 p) , ill
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    Series Statement: Archives Internationales D’Histoire Des Idées / International Archives of the History of Ideas 137
    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Philosophy, modern ; Science Philosophy ; History ; Philosophy, Modern. ; History. ; Science—Philosophy. ; Astronomy—Observations.
    Abstract: Otto von Guericke has been called a neglected genius, overlooked by most modern scholars, scientists, and laymen. He wrote his Experimenta Nova in the seventeenth century in Latin, a dead language for the most part inaccessible to contemporary scientists. Thus isolated by the remoteness of his time and his means of communication, von Guericke has for many years been denied the recognition he deserves in the English speaking world. Indeed, the century in which he lived witnessed the invention of six important and valuable scientific instruments -- the microscope, the telescope, the pendulum clock, the barometer, the thermometer, and the air pump. Von Guericke was associated with the development of the last three of these; he also experimented with a rudimentary electric machine. Thus his Experimenta Nova was an important work, heralding the emerging empiricism of seventeenth century science, and merits this first English translation of von Guericke's magnus opus
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    ISBN: 9789401109147
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (242 p) , 1 ill
    Edition: Third Edition
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    Series Statement: Synthese Library, Studies in Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science 153
    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Genetic epistemology ; Metaphysics ; Science Philosophy ; Science—Philosophy. ; Knowledge, Theory of. ; Metaphysics.
    Abstract: Featuring the Gestalt Model and the Perspectivist conception of science, this book is unique in its non-relativistic development of the idea that successive scientific theories are logically incommensurable. This edition includes four new appendices in which the central ideas of the book are applied to subatomic physics, the distinction between laws and theories, the relation between absolute and relative conceptions of space, and the environmental issue of sustainable development
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    ISBN: 9789401120562
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xviii, 199 p) , ill
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    Series Statement: Studies in Theoretical Psycholinguistics 19
    Keywords: Linguistics ; Applied linguistics ; Phonology ; Psycholinguistics ; Language and languages—Study and teaching. ; Psycholinguistics. ; Grammar, Comparative and general—Phonology. ; Applied linguistics.
    Abstract: In this book Archibald describes two studies conducted within a parametric framework in the area of second language acquisition. The studies are designed to investigate the acquisition of English stress patterns (via both production and perception tasks) by adult speakers of Polish and Hungarian. Archibald argues that interlanguage grammars can be understood as a mix of L1 transfer and the effects of Universal Grammar. Metrical parameters related to such things as quantity--sensitivity, extrametricality, and word--tree dominance determine the structure of the interlanguage. The author reports that the subjects are remarkably successful at acquiring English stress and do not appear to violate proposed universals of metrical phonology. This book is one of the few attempts to investigate the acquisition of L2 phonology within a UG framework. Empirical support is provided for the parametric model to an extent uncommon in most syntactic studies
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    ISBN: 9789401125949
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xiii, 411 p) , ill
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    Series Statement: Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science 136
    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Science Philosophy ; History ; Humanities ; Science—Philosophy. ; History.
    Abstract: Sciences et Empires: un thème promètteur, des enjeux cruciaux -- Welcome Address -- For a New Historiographical Approach of the So-called “Traditional Knowledge” -- Science classique et science moderne à l’époque de l’expansion de la science européenne -- Integration Problems: Introductory Report -- Ottomans and European Science -- The “Oriental-Occidental Controversy” of 1839 and its Impact on Indian Science -- The Colonial “Model” and the Emergence of National Science in India: 1876–1920 -- Integration Problems: Discussion -- Western Mathematics in China, Seventeenth Century and Nineteenth Century -- The Reception of Western Medicine in China: Examples from Yunnan -- Du “zira” au “mètre”: une transformation métrologique dans l’Empire Ottoman -- Models of European Scientific Expansion: a Comparative Description of “Classical” Medical Science at the Time of Introduction of European Medical Science to Sri Lanka, and Subsequent Development to Present -- Technical Content and Social Context: Locating Technical Institutes. The First Two Decades in the History of the Kala Bhavan, Baroda (1890–1910) -- The First Chair of Chemistry in Mexico (1796–1810) -- Trade and the Natural Sciences in the United States of Columbia -- Science et pouvoir au XIXe siècle: la France et le Mexique en perspective -- Le positivisme et la science au Brésil -- Les débuts de la physique mathématique et théorique au Brésil et 1’influence de la tradition française -- Brazilian Museums of Natural History and International Exchanges in the Transition to the 20th Century -- The Pan American Experiment in Eugenics -- Typologie des stratégies d’expansion en sciences exactes -- Sciences exactes et politique extérieure -- World-Science: How Is the History of World-Science to Be Written? -- Science and the Japanese Empire 1868–1945: An Overview -- Science and Nationalism in New Granada on the Eve of the Revolution of Independence -- Models of European Scientific Expansion: the Ottoman Empire as a Source of Evidence -- Problems in Science Administration: a Study of the Scientific Surveys in British India 1757–1900 -- Natural History in Colonial Context: Profit or Pursuit? British Botanical Enterprise in India 1778–1820 -- The Société Zoologique d’Acclimatation and the New French Empire: Science and Political Economy -- Patriarchal Science: the Network of the Overseas Pasteur Institutes -- Géographie et colonisation en France durant la Troisième République (1870–1940) -- La France et l’émergence des sciences modernes au Canada français (1900–1940) -- Autour de la mission française pour la création de l’Université de São Paulo (1934) -- Yvon Chatelin -- José Leite Lopes -- Abdur Rahman -- Nakayama Shigeru -- Juan-José Saldaña -- Jean-Jacques Salomon -- José Israël Vargas -- Unpublished Communications.
    Abstract: SCIENCE AND EMPIRES: FROM THE INTERNATIONAL COLLOQUIUM TO THE BOOK Patrick PETITJEAN, Catherine JAMI and Anne Marie MOULIN The International Colloquium "Science and Empires - Historical Studies about Scientific De­ velopment and European Expansion" is the product of an International Colloquium, "Sciences and Empires - A Comparative History of Scien­ tific Exchanges: European Expansion and Scientific Development in Asian, African, American and Oceanian Countries". Organized by the REHSEIS group (Research on Epistemology and History of Exact Sciences and Scientific Institutions) of CNRS (National Center for Scientific Research), the colloquium was held from 3 to 6 April 1990 in the UNESCO building in Paris. This colloquium was an idea of Professor Roshdi Rashed who initiated this field of studies in France some years ago, and proposed "Sciences and Empires" as one of the main research programmes for the The project to organize such a colloquium was a bit REHSEIS group. of a gamble. Its subject, reflected in the title "Sciences and Empires", is not a currently-accepted sub-discipline of the history of science; rather, it refers to a set of questions which found autonomy only recently. The terminology was strongly debated by the participants and, as is frequently suggested in this book, awaits fuller clarification.
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    ISBN: 9789401138185
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xvi, 678 p) , ill
    Edition: Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
    Keywords: Linguistics ; Linguistics Philosophy ; Artificial intelligence ; Anthropological linguistics. ; Artificial intelligence. ; Language and languages—Philosophy.
    Abstract: Bridging Interdisciplinary Boundaries: The Case of Kin Terms -- Dracula Conditionals and Discourse -- Grammar and Memory -- The English Stress Cycle and Interlexical Relations -- Sentential Subjects and Proper Government in Chamorro -- The Logic and Functions of the English Past and Perfect -- The Autonomy of the (Syntactic) Lexicon and Syntax: Insertion Conditions for Derivational and Inflectional Morphemes -- Conditions on Propagation of Binding Scope -- Roles and Values: The Case of French Copula Constructions -- Remarks on Phrasing and Prosodic Attachment -- On Psych Predicates -- Wanna-Contraction as Restructuring -- On Suppletion, Selection, and Agreement -- Affirmative Polarity Items and Negation in Japanese -- KARE -- Modularity and Chinese A-not-A Questions -- Pied Piping and Logical Form -- Cleft Sentences and the Territory of Information -- Against Pied Piping in LF -- Binding Properties of French EN -- Remarks on Adverbial Constituent Structure -- The Logic of kara and node in Japanese -- MA -- Verbiness and the Size of Niches in the English Auxiliary -- Extraposition and Parasitic Gaps -- Infinity Is in the Eye of the Beholder -- On One’s Own: The Semantics and Pragmatics of Reflexives -- Syntax and Downstep in Japanese -- Sentences in Texts: A Valediction for Sentence Topic -- The Cross-Linguistic Distribution of Adjective Ordering Restrictions -- Edges, Surfaces and Boundaries -- Argument Positions and Configurationality -- References -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects.
    Abstract: The thirty-two papers in this collection are offered to Professor S.-Y. Kuroda by his friends, as a ge sture of their deep respect and enduring affection. One of the many ways in which Professor Kuroda has impressed us all is in the breadth of his interests and areas of expertise. He is one of those rare scholars whose work and interests span the whole range of his discipline. He is a figure of such intellectual stature that he has inspired, influenced, and encouraged researchers in an astonishing variety of projects. He continues to do so at an unslackened pace today, just as his own productivity remains vigorous. But mention of Yuki's inspiration and influence is inadequate without mention of his special humorousness, his mischievous wit, his charm and as a friend, has added a unique warmth. Knowing Yuki, and counting him quality to our lives. We who have contributed to this collection have done so in partial acknowledgement of, and gratitude for, this benign and masterful influence. The contributions to the collection reflect the range of Yuki's own interests, and cover a rich variety of approaches to the analysis of natural language. These include papers in philosophy, psychology, computer sciencel artificial intelligence, and linguistics, and, within linguistics, the entire breadth of the field: phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, and computation. Though diverse in their themes, language areas, and foci, the papers are bound by their authors' common bond to Yuki.
    Description / Table of Contents: Bridging Interdisciplinary Boundaries: The Case of Kin TermsDracula Conditionals and Discourse -- Grammar and Memory -- The English Stress Cycle and Interlexical Relations -- Sentential Subjects and Proper Government in Chamorro -- The Logic and Functions of the English Past and Perfect -- The Autonomy of the (Syntactic) Lexicon and Syntax: Insertion Conditions for Derivational and Inflectional Morphemes -- Conditions on Propagation of Binding Scope -- Roles and Values: The Case of French Copula Constructions -- Remarks on Phrasing and Prosodic Attachment -- On Psych Predicates -- Wanna-Contraction as Restructuring -- On Suppletion, Selection, and Agreement -- Affirmative Polarity Items and Negation in Japanese -- KARE -- Modularity and Chinese A-not-A Questions -- Pied Piping and Logical Form -- Cleft Sentences and the Territory of Information -- Against Pied Piping in LF -- Binding Properties of French EN -- Remarks on Adverbial Constituent Structure -- The Logic of kara and node in Japanese -- MA -- Verbiness and the Size of Niches in the English Auxiliary -- Extraposition and Parasitic Gaps -- Infinity Is in the Eye of the Beholder -- On One’s Own: The Semantics and Pragmatics of Reflexives -- Syntax and Downstep in Japanese -- Sentences in Texts: A Valediction for Sentence Topic -- The Cross-Linguistic Distribution of Adjective Ordering Restrictions -- Edges, Surfaces and Boundaries -- Argument Positions and Configurationality -- References -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects.
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    ISBN: 9789401134927
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xviii, 214 p)
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    Series Statement: Episteme, A Series in the Foundational, Methodological, Philosophical, Psychological, Sociological, and Political Aspects of the Sciences, Pure and Applied 18
    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Genetic epistemology ; Logic ; Philosophy of nature ; Science Philosophy ; Science—Philosophy. ; Logic. ; Philosophy of nature. ; Knowledge, Theory of.
    Abstract: Reductionism as Negation of the Scientific Spirit -- The Power and Limits of Reduction -- Theory of Antireductionist Arguments:The Bohr Case Study -- A Short History of Emergence and Reductionism -- The Technical Problem of “Full Abstractness” as a Model for an Issue in Reductionism -- A Neutral Reduction: Analytical Method and Positivism -- Reductionism and Reduction in Logic and in Mathematics -- Reductionism in Biology -- Reductionism: Palaver without Precedent -- Must a Science of Artificial Intelligence be Necessarily Reductionist? -- Can Psychological Software be Reduced to Physiological Hardware? -- On the Problem of Reducing Value-Components in Epistemology -- Index Of Names.
    Abstract: The topic to which this book is devoted is reductionism, and not reduction. The difference in the adoption of these two denominations is not, contrary to what might appear at first sight, just a matter of preference between a more abstract (reductionism) or a more concrete (reduction) terminology for indicating the same sUbject matter. In fact, the difference is that between a philosophical doctrine (or, perhaps, simply a philosophical tenet or claim) and a scientific procedure. Of course, this does not mean that these two fields are separated; they are only distinct, and this already means that they are also likely to be interrelated. However it is useful to consider them separately, if at least to better understand how and why they are interconnected. Just to give a first example of difference, we can remark that a philosophical doctrine is something which makes a claim and, as such, invites controversy and should, in a way, be challenged. A scientific procedure, on the other hand, is something which concretely exists, and as such must be first of all described, interpreted, understood, defined precisely and analyzed critically; this work may well lead to uncovering limitations of this procedure, or of certain ways of conceiving or defining it, but it does not lead to really challenging it.
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    ISBN: 9789401131841
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xxv, 222 p) , ill
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    Series Statement: Studies in Theoretical Psycholinguistics 12
    Keywords: Linguistics ; Artificial intelligence ; Computational linguistics ; Psycholinguistics ; Grammar, Comparative and general Syntax ; Psycholinguistics. ; Grammar, Comparative and general—Syntax. ; Computational linguistics. ; Artificial intelligence.
    Abstract: I. Introduction Parsing strategies -- II. Experiment 1: Declaratives With Post-Verbal Subject -- III. Experiment 2: The Cost of Chains in Parsing: Processing Declaratives With Unaccusative or Unergative Verbs -- IV. Experiment 3: Referential and Non-Referential Wh-Dependencies -- V. Experiment 4: Wh-Questions with Post-Clausal Disambiguation -- VI. Experiment 5: The Minimal Chain Principle and the Grammar of the Langauge -- VII. General Discussion -- Appendices -- Material, Experiment 1 -- Material, Experiment 2 -- Material, Experiment 3 -- Material, Experiment 4 -- Material, Experiment 5 -- Index of Subjects -- Index of Authors.
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    ISBN: 9789401133944
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xxiii, 454 p) , ill
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    Series Statement: Analecta Husserliana, The Yearbook of Phenomenological Research 37
    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Ethics ; Phenomenology ; Science Philosophy ; History ; Phenomenology . ; Science—Philosophy. ; Ethics. ; History.
    Abstract: One time, Historicity, Culture -- Husserl and Historicism: Fifty Years Later -- The Teleology of the Historical Being in Hartmann and Husserl -- Historical Time, Mind, and Critical Philosophy of History -- Does Man Co-Create Time? -- The Reactivation of the Past as an Ethical Demand on the Phenomenologist -- Hartmann: The Historicity of Cultural Data -- Hombre y Civilizatión: 1492, La Educatión Imposible -- Phenomenology as a Theory of Culture -- Two Husserlian and Posthusserlian Approaches to Aesthetics -- The Methodological Foundations of Phe-nomenological Aesthetics -- Bild und Kunst im Husserls Nachlass -- Aesthetic Concepts of a Phenomeno-logical Origin -- A Poet’s Life and Work in the Perspective of Phenomenology -- On the Quasi-Intentional Nature of Represented Objects in a Film Work of Art -- Three The Life-Significance of Literature and its Interpretation -- Tymieniecka’s Vindication of the Life Significance of Literature. Homo Ludens and Homo Creator: Scapino -- The Enigma of Avant-Gardes -- Phenomenology and the Pragmatics of Literary Realism -- The Reader and the Reality of the Literary Text: Towards the Construction of Aesthetic Meaning -- Art as Communication -- Phenomenology and the Reception of Literary Texts: The Implied Reader as an Element of a Genre -- L’Oeuvre Litteraire, La Construction Interieure et la Reconstruction -- The Hundredlettered Name: Thunder in James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake -- Refiguring Nature: Tropes of Estrangement in Contemporary American Poetry -- Four Metaphysical Issues in Aesthetics -- Anti-Metaphysical Thinking on Art (Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty) -- The Sense of Possibility: On the Ontologico-Eidetic Relevance of the Character (The Experimental Ego) in Literary Experience -- Truth and Untruth in the Museum Exhibition -- Nihilism and Noesis: The Contribution of Phenomenology to the Sartrean Analysis of Flaubert -- Goethe and Schopenhauer: A Phenomenology of the Final Vision in Faust II -- The Tagorean Interpretation of “Ami”: Man’s Self-Esteem -- The Magic of Art in the Magic-Less World -- El Problema Einailogico -- Index of Names.
    Abstract: This collection is the final volume of a four book survey of the state of phenomenology fifty years after the death of Edmund Husserl. Its publication represents a landmark in the comprehensive treatment of contemporary phenomenology in all its vastness and richness. The diversity of the issues raised here is dazzling, but the main themes of Husserl's thought are all either explicitly treated, or else they underlie the ingenious approaches found here. Time, historicity, intentionality, eidos, meaning, possibility/reality, and teleology are the main concerns of this collection devoted to studies in aesthetics, metaphysics and literary interpretation, written by such authors as, among others, R. Cobb-Stevens, C. Moreno Marquez, J. Swiecimski, Sitansu Ray and M. Kronegger. These original studies of phenomenological aesthetics and literary theory by scholars from all parts of the world were gathered by the World Institute for Advanced Phenomenological Research and Learn­ ing during the year 1988/89 during its assessment of the phenomeno­ logical movement, fifty years after Husserl's death. IX A -T. Tymieniecka (ed.), Analecta Husserliana, Vol. XXXVII, ix.
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    ISBN: 9789401576765
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (424 p) , ill
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Genetic epistemology ; Science Philosophy ; Science—Philosophy. ; Knowledge, Theory of.
    Abstract: Content -- Theory and Measurement -- Vom Henker, vom Lügner und von ihrem Ende -- On the Current Status of the Issue of Scientific Realism -- Situation Semantics and the “Slingshot” Argument -- Notes on the Well-Made World -- Logical Foundations of Psychoanalytic Theory -- Friedlands Sterne oder Facta und Ficta -- Mathematics, the Empirical Facts, and Logical Necessity -- Quines Ontologiekriterium -- Zufall und Notwendigkeit in Wittgensteins Tractatus -- Moralbegründung ohne Metaphysik -- Probability as a Quasi-Theoretical Concept — J.V. Kries’ Sophisticated Account after a Century -- Valuations for Direct Propositional Logic -- Logical Semantics for Natural Language -- On How the Distinction between History and Philosophy of Science Should Not Be Drawn -- Vagueness and Alternative Logic -- The Rationalist Theory of Double Causality as an Object of Hume’s Criticism -- A Modest Concept of Moral Sense Perception -- Structuralism and Scientific Realism -- Deterministic and Probabilistic Reasons and Causes -- The Meaning of Probability Statements -- Normative Principles of Rational Communication -- Persönliche Anmerkungen.
    Description / Table of Contents: ContentTheory and Measurement -- Vom Henker, vom Lügner und von ihrem Ende -- On the Current Status of the Issue of Scientific Realism -- Situation Semantics and the “Slingshot” Argument -- Notes on the Well-Made World -- Logical Foundations of Psychoanalytic Theory -- Friedlands Sterne oder Facta und Ficta -- Mathematics, the Empirical Facts, and Logical Necessity -- Quines Ontologiekriterium -- Zufall und Notwendigkeit in Wittgensteins Tractatus -- Moralbegründung ohne Metaphysik -- Probability as a Quasi-Theoretical Concept - J.V. Kries’ Sophisticated Account after a Century -- Valuations for Direct Propositional Logic -- Logical Semantics for Natural Language -- On How the Distinction between History and Philosophy of Science Should Not Be Drawn -- Vagueness and Alternative Logic -- The Rationalist Theory of Double Causality as an Object of Hume’s Criticism -- A Modest Concept of Moral Sense Perception -- Structuralism and Scientific Realism -- Deterministic and Probabilistic Reasons and Causes -- The Meaning of Probability Statements -- Normative Principles of Rational Communication -- Persönliche Anmerkungen.
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