Author: Alene Moyer
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Keywords: acquisition, language, second, experience, accent
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2004-03-29
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 1853597171
ISBN-13: 9781853597176

This work critically addresses the age debate in second language acquisition studies, presenting an in-depth study of factors that predict foreign accent. Quantitative and qualitative analyses confirm that cognitive, social, and psychological factors contribute to attainment, and that biological influences must therefore be considered alongside these essential aspects of learner experience.

Author: Peter Howson
Publisher: Gower Technical Press
Keywords: value, acquisition, understanding, key, due, diligence, commercial
Number of Pages: 397
Published: 2006-04
List price: $160.00
ISBN-10: 0566086514
ISBN-13: 9780566086519

"Commercial Due Diligence" (CDD) is about telling the difference between superior businesses and poor businesses, which is why this book is a mixture of business strategy, marketing analysis and market research. However CDD is not about the bland application of analytical techniques, its about understanding how businesses and markets work, and what is really important for profits and growth. "Commercial Due Diligence" is written by someone with over twenty-five years experience of practical strategic analysis, who nonetheless has a strong academic grounding. For the first time here is a book t

Author: Neilson V. Smith
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: study, case, phonology, acquisition
Number of Pages: 284
Published: 2010-03-11
List price: $24.99
ISBN-10: 0521134331
ISBN-13: 9780521134330

Originally published in 1973, this book is an account of how the child learns the sound system of his native language, or how he learns to speak. A theory of the acquisition of phonology is derived from a detailed and rigorous analysis of the developing speech of a young child observed over a period of two years. The details of this analysis are elaborated in depth in chapters two and three and the major results of the study are given in chapter four. The final chapter is devoted to the implications of language acquisition for linguistic theory in general and generative phonology in particular

Author: David Block
Publisher: Unknown
Keywords: vol, acquisition, language, second, social
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 2003-01-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0748615520
ISBN-13: 9780748615520

Author: Tej Bhatia William Ritchie
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Keywords: acquisition, language, second, handbook, new
Number of Pages: 750
Published: 2009-09-11
List price: $174.95
ISBN-10: 1848552408
ISBN-13: 9781848552401

"The New Handbook of Second Language Acquisition" is a thoroughly revised, re-organized, and re-worked edition of Ritchie and Bhatia’s 1996 handbook. The work is divided into six parts, each devoted to a different aspect of the study of SLA. Part I includes a recent history of methods used in SLA research and an overview of currently used methods. Part II contains chapters on Universal Grammar, emergentism, variationism, information-processing, sociocultural, and cognitive-linguistic. Part III is devoted to overviews of SLA research on lexicon, morphosyntax, phonology, pragmatics, senten

Author: Singleton
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Keywords: multilingual, matters, acquisition, language, second, factor
Number of Pages: 172
Published: 2000-02-16
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 185359301X
ISBN-13: 9781853593017

Assembles a variety of perspectives on the age factor in second language acquistion through all of which runs the common thread of certain scepticism with regard to absolutist version of the idea that there is a particular maturational stage beyond which language learning is no longer possible.

Author: Elizabeth Lillehoj
Publisher: Floating World Editions
Keywords: period, japan, edo, ownership, art, acquisition
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2007-08-25
List price: $50.00
ISBN-10: 189164050X
ISBN-13: 9781891640506

This volume considers how and why people bought, sold, donated, and received works of art during Japan’s Edo period (1600-1868), when opportunities to obtain art increased as audiences for art expanded. Many urbanites enjoyed money in their pockets and access to information, which allowed them to emerge as influential consumers. With this, patronage of art by a small cohort of powerful and wealthy individuals gave way to support of art by a broader audience, and concurrently, exchanges between those making art and those acquiring art developed into new and dynamic interactions. The stu