Linguistics: An Introduction

English Corpus Linguistics An Introduction

Linguistics An Introduction, SECOND EDITION

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LINGUISTICS : AN INTRODUCTION Chapter 3 : Phonology

Note: This draft chapter was first written almost twenty years ago for a textbook that never got finished. (Or, to be more precise, my chapters were pretty much finished; my co-authors’ chapter wasn’t. Too bad, because we had a contract for the textbook with Oxford University Press.) One co-author, Richmond Thomason, also contributed to this chapter, though it was mainly written by me. The pres...

Forensic Linguistics and Forensic Phonetics: An Introduction

Communication is the essence of human civilization. Life would not have been possible without this cognitive faculty. However, with evolution in civilization instances of criminal activities are also on the increase. This paper introduces one such scientific discipline which has the potential to provide an authentic framework for such identifications. It is called Forensic Linguistics. Each ind...

Logical Aspects of Computational Linguistics: An Introduction

The papers in this collection are all devoted to single theme: logic and its applications in computational linguistics. They share many themes, goals and techniques, and any editorial classification is bound to highlight some connections at the expense of other. Nonetheless, we have found it useful to divide these papers (somewhat arbitrarily) into the following four categories: logical semanti...