Books in the Studies in Language and Linguistics series

How children first acquire language is one of the central issues in linguistics. This book draws on a wide range of research, including work in developmental psychology, anthropology and sociology, to explore the processes behind child language acquisition to the preschool period.

Based on the analysis of a computer corpus of speech data, this study looks at the interaction between intonation and discourse analysis. It is suitable for those work mainly on spoken language but would like to take more account of intonation in their analyses.

How do we understand who the pronouns 'they' and 'them' refer to? And how do we teach computers to solve this kind of problem? This book seeks to answer these kind of questions. It begins by introducing basic notions and terminology, moving onto early research methods and approaches, developments and applications and then future directions.

This text is a comprehensive introduction to the field of corpus linguistics, and provides a systematic overview of pre-electronic and electronic corpora of all kinds.

Multi-dimensional studies (MD) is a statistical approach to language variation. This book shows how MD studies can be used to investigate research questions in a number of linguistic core subjects, including corpus linguistics, sociolinguistics, applied linguistics and studies of literary style.

This text provides a comprehensive description of expressions in conversation, such as apologizing, thanking, accepting and refusing, drawing upon original research data from the London-Lund Corpus of Spoken English.

This work provides an introduction to the field of corpus-based research into learner language. It provides the reader with an overview of the field, explaining its links with corpus and applied linguistics, second language acquisition and ELT.