Applications of Linguistics

The Second International Congress of Applied Linguistics of 1969, provided scholarly papers from all over the world on applied linguistics.

G. E. Perren (Edited by), J. L. M. Trim (Edited by)

9780521131414, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 18 February 2010

520 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 2.9 cm, 0.76 kg

The Second International Congress of Applied Linguistics, held in Cambridge (8–12 September 1969), provided papers from all over the world to different subjects within the linguistic family. These are: linguistics applied to literary texts, computer analysis of texts, psychology of first and second language learning, speech research, technology of language learning, language teaching and test material and methodology, lexicography, theory of translation, contrastive linguistics, and sociolinguistics. This book is a fascinating and useful work of reference for all concerned with applied linguistics.

Foreword
Editors' introduction
Part I. Papers from Plenary Sessions: 1. Applications of linguistics
2. The uses of sociolinguistics
3. Technological development for language learning
4. Applied computational linguistics
5. La neurolinguistique
6. Linguistic factors in communications engineering
Part II. Papers from Specialist Sections: 7. Language and attitudes of the Spanish-speaking youth of the Southwestern United States
8. Some comparative descriptions of children's language
9. Cross-level interference: the influence of L1 syllable structure on L2 morphological error
10. Some psycholinquistic considerations involved in a language-testing project
11. A suggested rationale for the treatment of developmental disorders of language
12. Language testing in the primary school
13. The Radio Brighton pilot project: an experiment in teaching languages by radio and telephone
14. The reliability of the essay subtest in a university entrance test in English for non-native speakers of English
15. Tensions of television course-writing
16. Aptitude for and proficiency in French in the first year of the UK secondary school
17. Linguistic observations on the heroic couplet in English poetry
18. The use of the Dvanagari script as a phonemic notation for the teaching of English pronounciation in North India
19. Analyse électronique de textes litteraires appliquée à la lexicographie en Italie
20. Bruit et perception auditive (étude experimentale)
21. Applications of behavioural technology: from conventional lab teaching to technological total self-instruction
22. Distinctive features and phonetic dimensions
23. Learning and re-learning articulartory skills
24. Grammaires d'enfants agrammatiques
25. An error analysis in German of first-year university students
26. Analysis of decoding impairments in dysaphasic subjects
27. Three experiments in the use of VTR in language teaching
28. Children's use of categorisation in remembering verbal material
29. Teaching syntactic maturity
30. Preliminary recommendations of the Swedish research project on language laboratories in university teaching: an interim report
31. Some temporal factors in the listening behaviour of second language students
32. Static and dynamic lexical systems
33. A quantitative theory of cardinal vowels and the teaching of pronounciation
34. L'apport de la radio dans l'enseignement du français à l'école primaire sénégalaise
35. Contrastive analysis of the Hungarian and Serbocroation noun phrase
36. Semantic components in translation theory
37. Language varieties along the US-Mexican border
38. Talking to some purpose (choosing the language-teaching points of the Nuffield/Schools Council German course
39. Limites des applications de la linguistique à la lexicographie
40. A new concept of the language laboratory and its application to research and the development of proficiency in language learning
41. Reduced redundancy as a language testing tool
42. A recent development in English language educaiton in Japan: materials analysis
43. Where has all the money gone? The need for cost-effectiveness studies in the teaching of foreign langauge
44. Language development programs for Southern American Negroes
Un cours de français télévisé et son évaluation
46. Teaching standard English to speakers of other dialects
47. CARLOS: computer-assisted instructions in Spanish
48. Productive communication testing: progress report
49. Lexical density and register differentiation
50. Une solution au problème des homographes du français moderne
51. Research in applied linguistics and its impact upon foreign language teaching materials
52. Language deprivation and remedial teaching techniques
Appendices.

Subject Areas: Linguistics [CF]