William A Kretzschmar Jr

Gebundenes Buch

The Emergence and Development of English

An Introduction

Beschreibung

Presents a beginner's introduction to the history of the English language, incorporating complex systems, the scientific model behind human speech.

Autor

William A. Kretzschmar, Jr is the Harry and Jane Willson Professor in Humanities at the University of Georgia, and also has an appointment at the University of Oulu, Finland. He is Editor of the American Linguistic Atlas Project, the oldest and largest national research project surveying how people speak differently across the country, and has provided American pronunciations for the online Oxford English Dictionary and other dictionaries in the Oxford US Dictionaries program. In 2014 he held an American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Digital Innovation fellowship, during which he developed a computer simulation to model language change. Recent works include The Routledge Dictionary of Pronunciation for Current English (2017) with Clive Upton, and Exploring Linguistic Science: Language Use, Complexity, and Interaction (Cambridge, 2018) with Allison Burkette.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 268
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Dezember 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 257mm x 191mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 680g
• ISBN-13: 9781108469982
• ISBN-10: 1108469981
• Artikelnr.: 52962228