Universitatea 1 Decembrie1918”‚ Alba Iulia The Prague Linguistic Circle represented an important moment in the development of phonology‚ structuralism and linguistics in general and it prepared the grounds for research and the subsequent evolution of linguistics. The paper attempts a general view on what The Prague School meant for linguistics and it aims at giving a general survey on the activity and on the contributions brought by The Prague Linguistic Circle.It focuses on the novelty which the most
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The aim of this essay is to compare and contrast two important linguistics that reached a significant milestone in the history of Language. Their names are Leonard Bloomfield (April 1‚ 1887–April 18‚ 1949) and Ferdinand de Saussure (November 26‚ 1857– February 22‚ 1913). Leonard Bloomfield was an American linguist who led the development of structural linguistics in the United States during the 1930s and 1940s. Ferdinand de Saussure was a Swiss linguist who taught at the University of Geneva‚ whose
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students writing in L2 English Corder‚ S. P. (1967). The significance of learners’ errors. International Review of Applied Linguistics‚ 9‚ 147-159. Crossley‚ S. A.‚ & McNamara‚ D. S. (2010a). Cohesion‚ coherence‚ and expert evaluations of writing proficiency. Crossley‚ S. A.‚ & McNamara‚ D. S. (2010b). Predicting second language writing proficiency: The roles of cohesion and linguistic sophistication De Villez‚ R. (2003). Writing: Step by step. Dubuque‚ IA: Kendall Hunt. Dobber‚ M.‚ Akkerman‚ S. F.‚ Verloop
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The Speech Community Peter L. Patrick Dept. of Language and Linguistics University of Essex Wivenhoe Park Colchester CO4 3SQ United Kingdom Email: patrickp@essex.ac.uk http://privatewww.essex.ac.uk/~patrickp/ This article will appear in JK Chambers‚ P Trudgill & N Schilling-Estes (eds.)‚ Handbook of language variation and change. Oxford: Blackwell. ABSTRACT: empirical linguistics‚ is at the intersection of many principal problems in sociolinguistic theory and method. This paper traces its history
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McMaster University DigitalCommons@McMaster Open Access Dissertations and Theses Open Dissertations and Theses 1-1-1971 The Social Criticism of Charles Dickens: A Point of View V. Christine McCarthy Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.mcmaster.ca/opendissertations Part of the English Language and Literature Commons Recommended Citation McCarthy‚ V. Christine‚ "The Social Criticism of Charles Dickens: A Point of View" (1971). Open Access Dissertations and Theses. Paper
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Language Use in Commercials URL for an ad on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NP4UZ3vmQ54 Jack In the Box Commercial for a Philly Cheesesteak Sandwich The Jack in the Box ad was aired nationwide in the United States to highlight the addition of the classic Philly Cheesesteak to their already diverse menu. Jack in the Box uses a number of stereotypical features of Philadelphian and Mid Atlantic English to portray characteristics of the people of Philadelphia that they believe will help
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performance. A speaker’s linguistic competence is that part of his knowledge - his knowledge of the language-system as such - by virtue of which he is able to produce the indefinitely large set of sentences that constitutes his language (in Chomsky’s definition of a language as a set of sentences. Performance‚ on the other hand‚ is language-behaviour; and this is said to be determined‚ not only by the speaker’s linguistic competence‚ but also by a variety of non-linguistic factors including‚ on the
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framework‚ determining the set of possible discourse unit types based on an a priori determination of the major communicative functions that discourse units can serve in these texts. That framework is then applied to the analysis of all texts in the corpus. Thus‚ when texts are segmented into discourse units it is done by identifying a stretch of discourse of a particular type – that is‚ that serves a particular communicative function. Once
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systems render symbolic linguistic representations like phonetic transcriptions into speech. The ultimate goal of text-to-speech synthesis is to convert ordinary orthographic text into an acoustic signal that is indistinguishable from human speech. The conversion process‚ illustrated in Figure 1‚ is considered to have two parts‚ because the two parts involve different types of knowledge and processes. The front end handles problems in text analysis and higher level linguistic features; it interprets
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The cognitive linguistics is the foundation for the new accents in the comprehension of language. These accents give some opportunities for the study of the interaction between human mind and cognitive processes. The cognitive linguistics is the separate direction of the linguistics that is characterized by the language as the general cognitive mechanism and cognitive instrument located in the center of the science. The central problem of the cognitive linguistics is represented by the construction
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