Tag: Language

The Comparative Method of Language Acquisition Research


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English | ISBN: 022648128X | 2017 | 304 pages | PDF | 1519 KB
The Mayan family of languages is ancient and unique. With their distinctive relational nouns, positionals, and complex grammatical voices, they are quite alien to English and have never been shown to be genetically related to other New World tongues. These qualities, Clifton Pye shows, afford a particular opportunity for linguistic insight. Both an overview of lessons Pye has gleaned from more than thirty years of studying how children learn Mayan languages as well as a strong case for a novel method of researching crosslinguistic language acquisition more broadly, this book demonstrates the value of a close, granular analysis of a small language lineage for untangling the complexities of first language acquisition.

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Scarcely English An A to Z of Assaults on Our Language


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English | 19 Sept. 2024 | ISBN: 1529152798, 1804940135 | True EPUB | 272 pages | 0.6 MB
The English language has evolved throughout its history, and usually for good reasons. However, in recent years, egged on by social media and the ubiquity and velocity of the internet, it has been subject to some grave assaults. There appear no longer to be any rules, in an era when, thanks to the web (another word to have changed its meaning) everyone can be a published author, completely unedited and unregulated. This often has dire consequences for the English tongue.

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Whose Language Is English


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English | September 17, 2024 | ISBN: 0300264054 | 264 pages | PDF | 2.42 Mb
An exhilarating new account of the English language, from British colonialism to the age of social media, emphasizing dynamism and democratization

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