With a mixture of English-language case studies and more theoretical analyses, Sampson gives an overview of some of the new findings and insights about the nature of language which are emerging from investigations of real-life speech and writing, using computers and electronic language samples.
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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25 diagrams, notes, bibliography, list, index
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Höhe: 234 mm
Breite: 156 mm
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978-0-8264-4883-5 (9780826448835)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
From central embedding to empirical linguistics; why are long sentences longer than short ones? depth in English grammar - depth of English grammar; demographic correlates of complexity in British speech; the role of taxonomy; good-Turing frequency estimation without tears; objective evidence is all we need; what was transformational grammar? evidence against the grammatical/ungrammatical distinction; meaning and the limits of science. Bibliography; URL list.
