This book approaches the empirical validation of a popular method of assessing lexical knowledge - the yes/no vocabulary test or lexical decision task - from an interdisciplinary perspective. Each of its chapters sets out a distinct phase of the research along the development of a business English vocabulary test. The book offers a linguistic discussion of business English vocabulary, a psycholinguistic discussion of what aspects of linguistic knowledge and (meta)cognitive processing mechanisms are involved in completing the task, a psychometric-methodological discussion of how these aspects are measured and scored, and an applied discussion of the usefulness of the test. Thus, it is of interest to researchers, students, and professionals from a range of disciplines.
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La colección Escuela Inclusiva trata de la diversidad y de cómo afrontarla en la escuela y ha sido pensada para ayudar a los docentes que desean dar respuestas adecuadas a todo el alumnado desde un enfoque inclusivo. Así, este libro trata sobre la detección, evaluación, orientación e intervención educativa en relación con el alumnado que presenta dificultades en el aprendizaje de la lectura, sea en los momentos iniciales o a lo largo de su escolaridad. En este libro encontraréis propuestas, criterios, instrumentos, orientaciones y ejemplos para que todos los alumnos puedan aprender y participar en el aula junto a sus compañeros.
 

This volume presents the results of the international symposiumChunks in Corpus Linguistics and Cognitive Linguistics, held at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg to honour John Sinclair's contribution to the development of linguistics in the second half of the twentieth century.
The main theme of the book, highlighting important aspects of Sinclair's work, is the idiomatic character of language with a focus on chunks (in the sense of prefabricated items) as extended units of meaning. To pay tribute to Sinclair's enormous impact on research in this field, the volume contains two contributions which deal explicitly with his work, including material from unpublished manuscripts. Beyond that, the articles cover different aspects of chunks ranging from more theoretically-oriented to more applied papers, in which foreign language teaching and the computational application of the insights about the nature of language provided by corpus research play an important role.
The volume demonstrates the wide applicability and relevance of the notion of chunks by bringing together research from different fields of linguistics such as theoretical linguistics, psycholinguistics, computational linguistics and foreign language teaching, and thus provides an interdisciplinary view on the impact of idiomaticity in language.
 

• Leading scholars review their speciality in language acquisition
• Each chapter provides the reader with a strong introduction of the field and contains an overview of the work in the field by a leading authority
• Includes modern perspectives, reviews of crucial experiments, naturalistic data summaries, and methodological innovations that have led to new insights
Modern linguistic theory has been based on the promise of explaining how language acquisition can occur so rapidly with such subtlety, and with both surprising uniformity and diversity across languages. This handbook provides a summary and assessment of how far that promise has been fulfilled, exploring core concepts in acquisition theory, including notions of the initial state, parameters, triggering theory, the role of competition and frequency, and many others, across a variety of syntactic topics that have formed the central domains of investigation and debate. These topics are treated from the unique perspective of central actors in each domain who have helped shape the research agenda. The authors have presented a summary of the data, the theories under discussion, and their own best assessments of where each domain stands. Providing as well the agenda for future work in the field showing both particular needs and general directions that should be pursued in the coming decades.
 

Le personnage principal de ce roman devaitvous en raconter l'histoire, il commencerait peut-être par vous parler d'une panne de chauffe-eau, un certain 15 décembre. Ou de son père, architecte connu et engagé, avec qui il passa seul de nombreux réveillons de Noël. Il évoquerait certainement Olga, une très jolie Russerencontrée au début de sa carrière, lors d'une première exposition de son travail photographique à partir de cartes routières Michelin. C'était avant que le succès mondial n'arrive avec la série des 'métiers ', ces portraits de personnalités de tous milieux (dont l'écrivain Michel Houellebecq), saisis dans l'exercice de leur profession. Il devrait dire aussi comment il aida le commissaire Jasselin à élucider une atroce affaire criminelle, dont la terrifiante mise en scène marqua durablement les équipes de police. Sur la fin de sa vie il accédera à une certaine sérénité, et n'émettra plus que des murmures. L' art, l'argent, l'amour, le rapport au père, la mort, le travail, la France devenue un paradis touristique sont quelques-uns des thèmes de ce roman, résolument classique et ouvertement moderne

Modos de significar es una introducción a la filosofía del lenguaje que, desde una perspectiva que no es cronológica sino temática, se centra en los problemas y no en los autores. Esta edición totalmente revisada y ampliada contiene nuevos materiales: las objeciones y réplicas a los argumentos contra la teoría descriptiva de los nombres; las tesis de Kripke sobre géneros naturales; la teoría de Bach y Harnish de los actos de habla; la teoría de la relevancia; la teoría de la verdad de Putnam y las teorías deflacionarias; la vindicación de la analiticidad por parte de Boghossian; los análisis de las atribuciones de actitudes proposicionales; Kripkenstein sobre seguimiento de reglassreglas y lenguajes privados; la polémica entre Davidson y Dummett sobre la convención y las reglas en la comunicación verbal; los métodos semánticos de doble indexización de Kamp y Kaplan, y la pragmática de Stalnaker,; la teoría informacional de Dretske y la Biosemántica. Modos de significar será de interés para quienes se ocupan de lógica, filosofía, lingüística, ciencia cognitiva y, en general, cuestiones relacionadas con el lenguaje

Especialistas en lingüística, análisis del discurso, dialectología, sociolingüística, historia de la lengua, gramática y lexicografía tratan el tema de la variación desde la Edad Media a la actualidad

Robot bat garatu eta programatzea ez da erronka makala. Liburu honetan, horretarako beharrezkoak diren ezagutza teoriko eta praktikoak jaso nahi izan ditugu, eta modu ulergarrian eskaini irakurleari. Asmo nagusia, Robotika mugikorraren arloan lehen pausuak eman nahi dituenari bidea erraztea izan da, oinarrizko kontzeptuekin hasi (eragileak, sentsoreak, kontrola…) eta gradualki konplexutasun eta sofistikazio-maila altuko arlo eta aplikazioetara iritsi arte (kontrol-arkitekturak, nabigazioa, mapak…). Beti ere robotaren portaera adimentsu bihurtzen duten gakoak agerian utziz.
- Robotika mugikorraren oinarriak: teoria, ariketak eta programazioa tartekatuz.
- Hasiera-hasieratik robotak eraiki eta programatu:
1) LEGO NXT kaxa robotikoarekin
2) Player/Stage simulagailu ahaltsua erabiliz.
- Aplikazioak: objektuak ekidin, ingurunea aztertu, eremua garbitu, erabakiak hartu, mapak eraiki… eta beste hainbat.
- Kontrol-sistema konplexuak garatzeko estrategiak.
Robotika edo programazioari buruzko aldez aurreko ezagutzarik ez da behar. Esaiozu robotari zer nahi duzun egitea!
 

The studies in Language Change in Contact Languages showcase the contributions that the study of contact language varieties make to the understanding of phenomena such as relexification, transfer, reanalysis, grammaticalization, prosodic variation and the development of prosodic systems. Four of the studies deal with morphosyntactic issues while the other three address questions of prosody. The studies include data from the Atlantic creoles (Saramaccan, Sranan, Haitian Creole, Jamaican Creole, Trinidadian Creole, Papiamentu), as well as Singapore English. This volume, originally published as special issue of Studies in Language 33:2 (2009), aims to make the work of several language contact experts available to a wider audience. The studies will be of use to any student or scholar interested in different approaches to contact-induced language processes, particularly as they relate to morphosyntax and prosody

The appearance of Uriel Weinreich's Languages in Contact: Findings and Problems (1953) marked a milestone in the study of multilingualism and language contact. Yet until now, few linguists have been aware that its main themes were first laid out in Weinreich’s Columbia University doctoral dissertation of 1951, Research Problems in Bilingualism with Special Reference to Switzerland. Based on the author's fieldwork, it contains a detailed report on language contact in Switzerland in the first half of the 20th century, especially along the French-German linguistic border and between German and Romansh in the canton of Grisons (Graubünden). The present edition reproduces Weinreich's original text in full, with only minor alterations and corrections, as well as the author's fieldwork photographs and many of his hand-drawn diagrams. A new foreword reviews Weinreich's life and legacy, as well as developments in contact linguistics and the Swiss linguistic situation over the past 60 years. With selected comments on noteworthy points and references to more recent literature, this volume will be of interest not only to those working on the languages of Switzerland, or specialists in language contact, but all scholars today whose work builds on the broad and lasting foundations laid over half a century ago by Uriel Weinreich.