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Perspectives on Phrase Structure: Heads and Licensing
ISBN: 9780126061062 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book explores licensing theory and its implications for a theory of syntax. It brings together a series of new papers which focus on developing a constrained set of licensing mechanisms relating elements in a syntactic representation, and on the different properties of lexical and functional heads as licenses of complements and specifiers. Directed toward an audience of syntacticians and those interested in the applications of syntactic theory, it demonstrates the expanding explanatory parts of this approach to syntax.
This book explores licensing theory and its implications for a theory of syntax. It brings together a series of new papers which focus on developing a...
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747,88 |
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Long Distance Reflexives
ISBN: 9780126135336 / Angielski / Twarda / 354 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This new volume serves to focus and clarify the debate surrounding long-distance reflexives by examining the role of syntax, semantics, and pragmatics/discourse in the use of long-distance reflexives in a variety of languages. Graduate students, upper class undergraduates, theoretical linguists, computational linguists, psycholinguists, and linguists at large will find this an important tool. Syntacticians, as well as specialists in language acquisition and processing, will find the volume central to their work. The book is also of great value to those interested in Asian languages,...
This new volume serves to focus and clarify the debate surrounding long-distance reflexives by examining the role of syntax, semantics, and pragmatics...
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794,63 |
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Neuromotor Mechanisms in Human Communication
ISBN: 9780195054927 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This monograph is based on 20 years of research with patients who have experienced pathology in one hemisphere of the brain. It deals with brain mechanisms in human communicative behavior, and with related motor functions, from a broadly biological point of view. In so doing, the work discusses the possible evolutionary origins of human communication, the relation of brain mechanisms in communicative behavior to analogous nonhuman behaviors, and the neural systems involved in various levels and kinds of communication. In addition, noncommunicative mechanisms which parallel those used in...
This monograph is based on 20 years of research with patients who have experienced pathology in one hemisphere of the brain. It deals with brain mecha...
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667,50 |
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Aphasia and Its Therapy
ISBN: 9780195135879 / Angielski / Twarda / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the first single-authored book to attempt to bridge the gap between aphasia research and the rehabilitation of patients with this language disorder. Studies of the deficits underlying aphasia and the practice of aphasia rehabilitation have often diverged, and the relationship between theory and practice in aphasiology is loose. The goal of this book is to help close this gap by making explicit the relationship between what is to be rehabilitated and how to rehabilitate it.
Early chapters cover the history of aphasia and its therapy from Broca's discoveries to the... This is the first single-authored book to attempt to bridge the gap between aphasia research and the rehabilitation of patients with this language dis...
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358,93 |
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Seeing Voices
ISBN: 9780375704079 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Like The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, this is a fascinating voyage into a strange and wonderful land, a provocative meditation on communication, biology, adaptation, and culture.In Seeing Voices, Oliver Sacks turns his attention to the subject of deafness, and the result is a deeply felt portrait of a minority struggling for recognition and respect--a minority with its own rich, sometimes astonishing, culture and unique visual language, an extraordinary mode of communication that tells us much about the basis of language in hearing people as well. Seeing Voices is,...
Like The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, this is a fascinating voyage into a strange and wonderful land, a provocative meditation on commun...
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69,36 |
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Psycholinguistics: The Key Concepts
ISBN: 9780415258906 / Angielski / Twarda / 392 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Psycholinguistics: The Key Concepts is an authoritative and wide-ranging A-to-Z guide to this important field. Cross-referenced, with suggestions for further reading and a full index, the book is a highly accessible introduction to the main terms and concepts in psycholinguistics. The volume offers over 170 entries covering the key areas - psychological processes, first language acquisition, the nature of language, brain and language, and language disorders - and thus provides a resource for students of English language, linguistics and psychology.
Psycholinguistics: The Key Concepts is an authoritative and wide-ranging A-to-Z guide to this important field. Cross-referenced, with suggestions for ...
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710,17 |
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Psychological Perspectives on Deafness: Volume II
ISBN: 9780805810547 / Angielski / Twarda / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This edited volume picks up where Psychological Perspectives on Deafness, Volume 1 ended. Composed of review chapters that reflect cutting-edge views from well-known international researchers within the field, this book surveys issues within the field of deafness, such as cognition, learning disabilities, social development, language development, and psychopathology. It also highlights the many new and exciting findings currently emerging from researchers across a variety of disciplines--psychology, education, linguistics, and child development. The chapters will engage, challenge, and...
This edited volume picks up where Psychological Perspectives on Deafness, Volume 1 ended. Composed of review chapters that reflect cutting-edge...
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710,17 |
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Signal to Syntax : Bootstrapping From Speech To Grammar in Early Acquisition
ISBN: 9780805812657 / Angielski / Twarda / 504 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume represents a range of disciplines - linguistics, psychology, cognitive and computer science, and acoustics. The contributors offer a spectrum of viewponts on the possibility that aspects of speech may apply to language learning.
This volume represents a range of disciplines - linguistics, psychology, cognitive and computer science, and acoustics. The contributors offer a spect...
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747,55 |
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Second Language Acquisition Theory and Pedagogy
ISBN: 9780805816877 / Angielski / Twarda / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book deals with the relationship between L2 theory and pedagogy. Grouped into five sections, the papers in this volume: consider questions about L2 theory and pedagogy at the macro-level, from the standpoint of the L2 setting; consider input in terms of factors which are internal to the learner; examine the question of external factors affecting the input, such as the issue of whether points of grammar can be explicitly taught; deal with questions of certain complex, linguistic behaviours and the various external and social variables that influence leaners; and discuss issues surrounding...
This book deals with the relationship between L2 theory and pedagogy. Grouped into five sections, the papers in this volume: consider questions about ...
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710,17 |
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Introductory Phonetics and Phonology: A Workbook Approach
ISBN: 9780805820683 / Angielski / Miękka / 308 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Success in mastering any language requires knowledge in speaking, reading, and writing the language. The speaking component requires the understanding and use of correct pronunciation, emphasis, and syntactic patterns. The written component requires mastery of the alphabet, spelling, and the ability to write, print, or type the pattern. Very early in the learning process, speakers of the English language become keenly aware of the language's lack of sound to symbol correspondence. To help speech/language researchers, media personnel, individuals learning English as a second language, and...
Success in mastering any language requires knowledge in speaking, reading, and writing the language. The speaking component requires the understanding...
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244,84 |
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Transcortical Aphasias
ISBN: 9780863778414 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Transcortical aphasias is the term used for syndromes in which the ability to repeat language is relatively preserved despite marked disturbances in other linguistic domains. Although there are a number of well-known reference texts on language disturbances after acquired brain damage that uncover the classical syndromes of aphasia (e.g. conduction aphasia) in a comprehensive fashion, this monograph is unique in its coverage of the different clinical, linguistic, and neuroanatomical aspects of transcortical aphasias.
This book offers a comprehensive, contemporary and scholarly account of... Transcortical aphasias is the term used for syndromes in which the ability to repeat language is relatively preserved despite marked disturbances in o...
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225,25 |
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MacArthur Inventarios del Desarrollo de Habilidades Comunicativas (Inventarios) User's Guide and Technical Manual
ISBN: 9781557666178 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. SAVE when you order this item as part of a set. This easy-to-read manual provides professionals with a thorough introduction to the "Inventarios, " the Spanish adaptation of the "MacArthur Communicative Development Inventories (CDIs), " standardized, parent-completed report forms designed by top language researchers to assess language and communication skills in young children ages 8 30 months. Along with an extensive overview of the two "Inventario" forms "Primeras Palabras y Gestos" and "Palabras y Enunciados" the manual includes
SAVE when you order this item as part of a set. This easy-to-read manual provides professionals with a thorough introduction to the "Inventarios,... |
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210,60 |
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Attention, Memory, and Executive Function
ISBN: 9781557668561 / Angielski / Miękka / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The absence of consensual, cross-disciplinary theories, definitions, and methodologies has hampered the study of attention, memory, and executive function. Incorporating different theoretical perspectives, this exceptional volume helps establish some common understanding of these three central processes. This book reveals how the authors' findings from their research in psychology, neuropsychology, special education, and medicine can help clinicians assess and remediate reading and attention disorders. Valuable directions for future research are also offered.
The absence of consensual, cross-disciplinary theories, definitions, and methodologies has hampered the study of attention, memory, and executive func...
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192,49 |
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The Handbook for Evidence-Based Practice in Communication Disorders
ISBN: 9781557668707 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. With this landmark textbook, speech-language pathologists will learn to apply current best evidence as they make critical decisions about the care of each individual they serve. The first text that covers this cutting-edge topic for the communication disorders field, this book introduces SLPs to the principles and process of evidence-based practice, thoroughly covering its three primary components: "external" evidence from systematic research, "internal" evidence from clinical practice, and evidence concerning patient preferences. SLPs will get the in-depth guidance they need... With this landmark textbook, speech-language pathologists will learn to apply current best evidence as they make critical decisions about the care ... |
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161,63 |
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Challenging Aphasia Therapies : Broadening the Discourse and Extending the Boundaries
ISBN: 9781841695051 / Angielski / Twarda / 178 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Challenging Aphasia Therapies presents an entirely new approach to thinking on the subject of aphasia therapy by liberating it from traditional models. This is achieved through a process of reflection in which many assumptions previously taken for granted are challenged and reassessed. Internationally renowned experts successfully demonstrate the benefits of learning about aphasia therapy through the process of engaging in it.
Challenging Aphasia Therapies presents an entirely new approach to thinking on the subject of aphasia therapy by liberating it from traditional models...
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440,75 |
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Language and Cognitive Processes in Developmental Disorders: A Special Issue of Language and Cognitive Processes
ISBN: 9781841699103 / Angielski / Twarda / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This Special Issue encompasses studies of a wide range of developmental disorders, including Specific Language Impairment (SLI), reading disability, Williams Syndrome, hearing impairment and autistic disorder. Chiat contributes a theoretical analysis of the underlying nature of Specific Language Impairment, questioning whether it is appropriate to focus on a narrow domain of linguistic functioning, such as morphosyntax, and suggesting instead that we need to see how children are able to carry out mapping operations between the domains of phonology, syntax and semantics.
Three papers focus... This Special Issue encompasses studies of a wide range of developmental disorders, including Specific Language Impairment (SLI), reading disability, W...
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661,20 |
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Communication and Mental Illness
ISBN: 9781853027321 / Angielski / Miękka / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is a unique book that addresses an interesting aspect of work in mental health settings.' - Mental Health OT Communication and Mental Illness is a comprehensive and practical textbook written by a multidisciplinary group of experts in the field of mental health which will be of interest to all those interested in improving their understanding of individuals with mental illness. The book is divided into three parts. The first of these offers both student and experienced clinicians in the mental health field an improved theoretical knowledge of the methods of communication commonly adopted...
This is a unique book that addresses an interesting aspect of work in mental health settings.' - Mental Health OT Communication and Mental Illness is ...
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170,08 |
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Parents' Education as Autism Therapists: Applied Behaviour Analysis in Context
ISBN: 9781853027789 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Clear, focused, and practical, this book is a useful introduction to ABA for parents and professionals working with children with autism. Successful child rearing is an essential skill for any parent. For most of us this skill is handed down from our own parents and society in general. In real terms this means that rather than relying on any formal instruction to help us, we bring up our children using skills based largely upon common sense and a willingness to do our best. These methods are, by-and-large, successful in everyday situations. However, when it comes to more difficult aspects of...
Clear, focused, and practical, this book is a useful introduction to ABA for parents and professionals working with children with autism. Successful c...
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128,84 |
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Teaching Children with Speech and Language Difficulties
ISBN: 9781853465857 / Angielski / Miękka / 84 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Written for the newly-qualified or student teacher, this text explains the process of identifying and understanding the nature of speech and language difficulties in pupils and shows how to support their learning. The author discusses how these difficulties can impact on the pupil's learning and offers examples of good curriculum planning and practical strategies that can assist the pupil within a mainstream classroom. The book demonstrates how teachers can get the most out of working with other colleagues, such as speech and language therapists, or parents of children with speech and...
Written for the newly-qualified or student teacher, this text explains the process of identifying and understanding the nature of speech and language ...
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146,88 |
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Language in Mental Retardation
ISBN: 9781861560049 / Angielski / Miękka / 324 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is intended both as a comprehensive review and discussion of the major studies of language development and functioning in mentally retarded (MR) persons over the last fifty years, and as an exploration of a number of important issues in this field. *The use of the term 'mental retardation' is in line with the recommendations of the American Association on Mental Retardation and other relevant organisations.
This book is intended both as a comprehensive review and discussion of the major studies of language development and functioning in mentally retarded ...
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443,11 |