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Bilingualism, Multiculturalism, and Second Language Learning: The Mcgill Conference in Honour of Wallace E. Lambert

This collection pays tribute to Professor Wallace E. Lambert and his contributions to the fields of language and linguistics. Each chapter, written by an internationally renowned theorist or researcher, traces the currents of theory and research within the topic area to the present day, provides a state-of-the-art review of the topic, and offers an outline for future research directions. The book concludes with an overview from Professor Lambert that critically examines the impact of the ideas in each individual chapter. This volume is organized around the three areas where Professor Lambert's unique contributions are most substantial and most evident: bilingualism, multiculturalism, and second language learning. Specifically, the papers presented discuss the topics of social, psychological, cognitive, and neuropsychological aspects of bilingualism and second language learning, the psychology of inter-group relations and multiculturalism, bilingual/immersion education, and language planning. Note: Royalties earned from sales of this book will go to the Wallace E. Lambert Student Research Fund at McGill University for use by students interested in second language acquisition, bilingualism, and/or multiculturalism.

Biological and Behavioral Determinants of Language Development

This book presents a current, interdisciplinary perspective on language requisites from both a biological/comparative perspective and from a developmental/learning perspective. Perspectives regarding language and language acquisition are advanced by scientists of various backgrounds -- speech, hearing, developmental psychology, comparative psychology, and language intervention. This unique volume searches for a rational interface between findings and perspectives generated by language studies with humans and with chimpanzees. Intended to render a reconsideration as to the essence of language and the requisites to its acquisition, it also provides readers with perspectives defined by various revisionists who hold that language might be other than the consequence of a mutation unique to humans and might, fundamentally, not be limited to speech.

Biological and Behavioral Determinants of Language Development

This book presents a current, interdisciplinary perspective on language requisites from both a biological/comparative perspective and from a developmental/learning perspective. Perspectives regarding language and language acquisition are advanced by scientists of various backgrounds -- speech, hearing, developmental psychology, comparative psychology, and language intervention. This unique volume searches for a rational interface between findings and perspectives generated by language studies with humans and with chimpanzees. Intended to render a reconsideration as to the essence of language and the requisites to its acquisition, it also provides readers with perspectives defined by various revisionists who hold that language might be other than the consequence of a mutation unique to humans and might, fundamentally, not be limited to speech.

Biological and Behavioral Determinants of Language Development

This book presents a current, interdisciplinary perspective on language requisites from both a biological/comparative perspective and from a developmental/learning perspective. Perspectives regarding language and language acquisition are advanced by scientists of various backgrounds -- speech, hearing, developmental psychology, comparative psychology, and language intervention. This unique volume searches for a rational interface between findings and perspectives generated by language studies with humans and with chimpanzees. Intended to render a reconsideration as to the essence of language and the requisites to its acquisition, it also provides readers with perspectives defined by various revisionists who hold that language might be other than the consequence of a mutation unique to humans and might, fundamentally, not be limited to speech.

Biological and Behavioral Determinants of Language Development

This book presents a current, interdisciplinary perspective on language requisites from both a biological/comparative perspective and from a developmental/learning perspective. Perspectives regarding language and language acquisition are advanced by scientists of various backgrounds -- speech, hearing, developmental psychology, comparative psychology, and language intervention. This unique volume searches for a rational interface between findings and perspectives generated by language studies with humans and with chimpanzees. Intended to render a reconsideration as to the essence of language and the requisites to its acquisition, it also provides readers with perspectives defined by various revisionists who hold that language might be other than the consequence of a mutation unique to humans and might, fundamentally, not be limited to speech.

Bridges Between Psychology and Linguistics: A Swarthmore Festschrift for Lila Gleitman

Written as a tribute to Lila Gleitman, an influential pioneer in first language acquisition and reading studies, this significant book clearly establishes the relationships between psychology and linguistics. It begins with a thorough examination of issues in developmental psychology, continues with questions on perception and cognition, studies the realm of psycholinguistics, and concludes with an exploration of theoretical linguistics.

Bridges Between Psychology and Linguistics: A Swarthmore Festschrift for Lila Gleitman

Written as a tribute to Lila Gleitman, an influential pioneer in first language acquisition and reading studies, this significant book clearly establishes the relationships between psychology and linguistics. It begins with a thorough examination of issues in developmental psychology, continues with questions on perception and cognition, studies the realm of psycholinguistics, and concludes with an exploration of theoretical linguistics.

Cognition and the Symbolic Processes: Applied and Ecological Perspectives

This volume is a festschrift dedicated to James J. Jenkins, a pioneer in many areas of experimental psychology. It has three major goals: to provide a forum for debate on current theoretical issues in cognitive psychology, to capture the "state of the art" in reviews of research methods and results, and to generate ideas for new research directions and methodologies. Contributors -- including Jenkins' former students and present colleagues -- ponder fundamental questions such as: * How do people learn to read? * What happens during the processes of speech perception? * How do people acquire problem solving skills? * How do cognitive and motor skills develop and integrate with one another? Many chapters focus specifically on ecological and applied cognitive psychology. Specific topics covered include visual and speech perception, language, memory, motivation, child development, problem solving, and pedagogy.

Cognition and the Symbolic Processes: Applied and Ecological Perspectives

This volume is a festschrift dedicated to James J. Jenkins, a pioneer in many areas of experimental psychology. It has three major goals: to provide a forum for debate on current theoretical issues in cognitive psychology, to capture the "state of the art" in reviews of research methods and results, and to generate ideas for new research directions and methodologies. Contributors -- including Jenkins' former students and present colleagues -- ponder fundamental questions such as: * How do people learn to read? * What happens during the processes of speech perception? * How do people acquire problem solving skills? * How do cognitive and motor skills develop and integrate with one another? Many chapters focus specifically on ecological and applied cognitive psychology. Specific topics covered include visual and speech perception, language, memory, motivation, child development, problem solving, and pedagogy.

Communicating Ideas: The Politics of Scholarly Publishing

Communicating Ideas is the first attempt to place publishing in America in its political and commercial setting. The book addresses the political implications of scholarly communication in the era of the new computerized technology. Horowitz does so by examining classic problems of political theory in the context of property rights versus the presumed right to know, and the special strains involved in publishing as a business versus information as a public trust Offering a knowledgeable and insightful view of publishing in America and abroad, this book makes an important contribution to the study of mass culture in advanced societies.The discussion ranges considerably beyond scholarly publications into communication as a whole, encompassing a wide range of issues from cable and satelite television control to specialized issues in copyright legislation, the prize system in publishing, and the definition of standards of the industry. This new edition, expanded by fully one third, expands on such themes, and in addition deals with Horowitz's new research on the history of social science publishing.The first edition, published in 1986, was described by WE. Coleman as "a marvelous book which indeed offers a realistic analysis of publishing." John P. Dessauer declared that "no one thinking seriously about the future of scholarly communication can afford to ignore his work, in particular his treatment of basic issues." Joseph Gusfield (Los Angeles Times), in his review, noted that "Horowitz is alive to the possibilities and barriers for academics to reach a wider audience and for lay persons to utilize scholarship. Both groups can learn much from this intelligent book." And Philip G. Altbach (Scholarly Publishing) concluded his review by saying that Communicating Ideas "will be of interest not only to publishers and editors, but also to librarians and to sociologists of science."

Communicating Ideas: The Politics of Scholarly Publishing

Communicating Ideas is the first attempt to place publishing in America in its political and commercial setting. The book addresses the political implications of scholarly communication in the era of the new computerized technology. Horowitz does so by examining classic problems of political theory in the context of property rights versus the presumed right to know, and the special strains involved in publishing as a business versus information as a public trust Offering a knowledgeable and insightful view of publishing in America and abroad, this book makes an important contribution to the study of mass culture in advanced societies.The discussion ranges considerably beyond scholarly publications into communication as a whole, encompassing a wide range of issues from cable and satelite television control to specialized issues in copyright legislation, the prize system in publishing, and the definition of standards of the industry. This new edition, expanded by fully one third, expands on such themes, and in addition deals with Horowitz's new research on the history of social science publishing.The first edition, published in 1986, was described by WE. Coleman as "a marvelous book which indeed offers a realistic analysis of publishing." John P. Dessauer declared that "no one thinking seriously about the future of scholarly communication can afford to ignore his work, in particular his treatment of basic issues." Joseph Gusfield (Los Angeles Times), in his review, noted that "Horowitz is alive to the possibilities and barriers for academics to reach a wider audience and for lay persons to utilize scholarship. Both groups can learn much from this intelligent book." And Philip G. Altbach (Scholarly Publishing) concluded his review by saying that Communicating Ideas "will be of interest not only to publishers and editors, but also to librarians and to sociologists of science."

Contemporary Public Opinion: Issues and the News

This book discusses the public opinion process with a focus on the role that the news media play in shaping public opinion. Although heavily influenced by the agenda-setting perspective -- the view that the news media define the important issues of the day and determine how these issues are presented -- the authors neither support nor refute this claim. They present instead a variety of contemporary scholarship integrated into a coherent picture of public opinion for a general audience.

Contemporary Public Opinion: Issues and the News (Communication Textbook Ser.)

This book discusses the public opinion process with a focus on the role that the news media play in shaping public opinion. Although heavily influenced by the agenda-setting perspective -- the view that the news media define the important issues of the day and determine how these issues are presented -- the authors neither support nor refute this claim. They present instead a variety of contemporary scholarship integrated into a coherent picture of public opinion for a general audience.

Das Geheimnis: Zur funktionalen Ambivalenz von Kommunikationsstrukturen

Data Communication Systems and Their Performance: Proceedings of the IFIP TC6 Fourth International Conference on Data Communication Systems and Their Performance, Barcelona, Spain, 20-22 June, 1990

The research papers in this volume describe recent, original developments in techniques, tools and applications in the area of communication system performance. Involved in the project are researchers from the world's leading universities, research institutes and companies.

Datenbankzugriff in offenen Rechnernetzen (Informationstechnik und Datenverarbeitung)

Die Verwendung standardisierter Kommunikationsprotokolle erlaubt den Fernzugriff auf Datenbanken auch in offenen Netzen, in denen Rechner unterschiedlicher Architektur (bezüglich der Hardware, der Betriebssysteme und der Datenbanksysteme) kooperieren. In dem Buch werden Kommunikationsfunktionen entwickelt für einen dem Client/Server-Modell entsprechenden Datenbankzugriff in offenen Rechnernetzen (Remote Database Access - RDA). Zunächst werden bestehende Ansätze für den Fernzugriff auf Datenbanken mit Hilfe eines geeigneten Modells klassifiziert. Dabei werden verteilte Datenbanksysteme, föderative Datenbanksysteme und verteilte Transaktionssysteme betrachtet. Der Entwurf der RDA-Kommunikationsfunktionen wird in die Verbindungsverwaltung, den Transfer von Datenbankoperationen, die Unterstützung der Datenrepräsentation und die Transaktionsverwaltung untergliedert. Als Schwerpunkt wird die Verwaltung verteilter Transaktionen in offenen Systemen behandelt. Da offene Systeme sich bezüglich ihrer Zuverlässigkeit unterscheiden können, werden in den hier eingeführten Transaktionsprotokollen sichere und unsichere Systeme modelliert. Für sichere Systeme wird trotz der Beteiligung unsicherer Systeme eine konsistente Terminierung einer Transaktion in endlicher Zeit garantiert.

Datenübertragung: Eine Einführung (Hochschultext)

Dieses Lehrbuch stellt eine umfassende Einführung in die Datenübertragung dar. Ausgehend von den theoretischen Grundlagen der Nachrichten- und Informationstechnik werden die in der Praxis eingesetzten und u.a. vom CCITT standardisierten Verfahren dargestellt, wobei der Autor die einzelnen Komponenten eines Übertragungssystems von der Quelle bis zur Senke erläutert. Der Leser erfährt nicht nur, welche Verfahren benutzt werden, sondern auch aus welchen Gründen. Ausführliche Literaturhinweise helfen bei Detailfragen. Der Student findet in diesem für einen einsemestrigen Kursus geeigneten Lehrbuch eine rasche, aber dennoch präzise Einführung. Der Entwickler und Anwender kennt sich nach der Durcharbeitung des Buches nicht nur mit dem Wie und Warum der Datenübertragung aus, sondern auch mit den Bezügen zum ISDN-Konzept.

Debate and Critical Analysis: The Harmony of Conflict (Routledge Communication Series)

Rather than approach debate primarily as a form of interscholastic competition, this unique book identifies it as an activity that occurs in many settings: scientific conferences, newspaper op-ed pages, classrooms, courts of law, and everyday domestic life. Debate is discussed as an integral part of academic inquiry in all disciplines. As in all fields of study, various competing views are advanced and supported; Debate and Critical Analysis is designed to better prepare the student to assess and engage them. This text posits four characteristics of true debate -- argument development, clash, extension, and perspective -- which form the basic structure of the book. Each concept or aspect of argument covered is illustrated by an example drawn from contemporary or historical sources, allowing the reader to actually see the techniques and strategies at work. All popular forms of competitive debate, including "policy," "Lincoln-Douglas," "value-oriented," and "parliamentary," are discussed in detail -- as embedded in the actual topical controversies with which they are concerned. In this way, the student can learn the structures, reasoning processes, and strategies that may be employed, as well as the practical affairs of debating, from brief-writing to the flowsheet.

Debate and Critical Analysis: The Harmony of Conflict (Routledge Communication Series)

Rather than approach debate primarily as a form of interscholastic competition, this unique book identifies it as an activity that occurs in many settings: scientific conferences, newspaper op-ed pages, classrooms, courts of law, and everyday domestic life. Debate is discussed as an integral part of academic inquiry in all disciplines. As in all fields of study, various competing views are advanced and supported; Debate and Critical Analysis is designed to better prepare the student to assess and engage them. This text posits four characteristics of true debate -- argument development, clash, extension, and perspective -- which form the basic structure of the book. Each concept or aspect of argument covered is illustrated by an example drawn from contemporary or historical sources, allowing the reader to actually see the techniques and strategies at work. All popular forms of competitive debate, including "policy," "Lincoln-Douglas," "value-oriented," and "parliamentary," are discussed in detail -- as embedded in the actual topical controversies with which they are concerned. In this way, the student can learn the structures, reasoning processes, and strategies that may be employed, as well as the practical affairs of debating, from brief-writing to the flowsheet.

Delta-4: A Generic Architecture for Dependable Distributed Computing (Research Reports Esprit #1)

Delta-4 is a 5-nation, 13-partner project that has been investigating the achievement of dependability in open distributed systems, including real-time systems. This book describes the design and validation of the distributed fault-tolerant architecture developed within this project. The key features of the Delta-4 architecture are: (a) a distributed object-oriented application support environment; (b) built-in support for user-transparent fault­ tolerance; (c) use of multicast or group communication protocols; and (d) use of standard off­ the-shelf processors and standard local area network technology with minimum specialized hardware. The book is organized as follows: The first 3 chapters give an overview of the architecture's objectives and of the architecture itself, and compare the proposed solutions with other approaches. Chapters 4 to 12 give a more detailed insight into the Delta-4 architectural concepts. Chapters 4 and 5 are devoted to providing a firm set of general concepts and terminology regarding dependable and real-time computing. Chapter 6 is centred on fault-tolerance techniques based on distribution. The description of the architecture itself commences with a description of the Delta-4 application support environment (Deltase) in chapter 7. Two variants of the architecture - the Delta-4 Open System Architecture (OSA) and the Delta-4 Extra Performance Architecture (XPA) - are described respectively in chapters 8 and 9. Both variants of the architecture have a common underlying basis for dependable multicasting, i. e.

Digital Image Processing: Concepts, Algorithms, and Scientific Applications

Intended as a practical guide, the book takes the reader from basic concepts to up-to-date research topics in digital image processing. Only little special knowledge in computer sciences is required since many principles and mathematical tools widely used in natural sciences are also applied in digital image processing thus the reader with a general background in natural science gets an easy access to the material presented. The book discusses the following topics: image acquisition and digitization; linear and nonlinear filter operations; edge detection; local orientation and texture; fast algorithms on pyramidal and multigrid data structures; morphological operations to detect the shape of objects; segmentation and classification. Further chapters deal with the reconstruction of three-dimensional objects from projections and the analysis of stereo images and image sequences with differential, correlation, and filter algorithms. Many examples from different areas show how the reader can use digital image processing as an experimental tool for image data acquisition and evaluation in his or her research area.

Digitale Bildverarbeitung

Diese praxisorientierte Einführung baut auf Prinzipien und mathematischen Methoden auf, die aus Naturwissenschaft und Technik bekannt sind. Es werden keine speziellen Kenntnisse der Informatik vorausgesetzt. Das Buch führt von den Grundlagen zu den aktuellen Konzepten der Bildverarbeitung. Es behandelt: Bildaufnahme; Bildverbesserung; Lineare und nichtlineare Filteroperationen zur Erkennung von Kanten, lokaler Orientierung und Textur; Pyramiden; Segmentierung und Klassifizierung. Weitere Kapitel befassen sich mit der Rekonstruktion dreidimensionaler Bilder aus Projektionen und mit Gradienten-, Korrelations- und Filterverfahren zur Analyse von Bewegungen in Bildfolgen. Praktische Beispiele aus zahlreichen Fachgebieten illustrieren - zum Teil in Farbe - die Darstellung. Sie zeigen dem Leser, daß selbst komplexe Aufgaben mit kostengünstigen Bildverarbeitungssystemen auf der Basis eines Personalcomputers durchführbar sind. Die zweite Auflage wurde vollständig neu bearbeitet und aktualisiert. Insbesondere neueste Entwicklungen der PC-Hardware wurden berücksichtigt. Das Buch wendet sich an Studenten, Wissenschaftler und Ingenieure, die sich mit digitaler Bildverarbeitung und ihrer praktischen Anwendungsmöglichkeit in Wissenschaft und Technik vertraut machen wollen.

Digitale Kommunikationsnetze: Prinzipien, Einrichtungen, Systeme

In der Telekommunikationstechnik hat Anfang der 80er Jahre eine neue Epoche begonnen, deren Ende noch nicht abzusehen ist. Nach dem Übergang von der Elektromechanik über rechnergesteuerte Vermittlungssysteme zur Digitalübermittlung ist man nun dabei, auf der Hardwareseite die Breitbandkommunikation, auf der Softwareseite diensteintegrierende und intelligente Netze zu realisieren. Diese beiden Aufgaben werden im vorliegenden Buch behandelt. Wie in seinen Vorgängerwerken erklärt der Autor auch diesmal wieder Stand und künftige Entwicklung dieses wichtigen Gebietes der Nachrichtentechnik in einer auch Nichtspezialisten ansprechenden Form. Die thematische Vielfalt und die Allgemeinverständlichkeit der Darstellung erleichtern sowohl Ingenieuren die Einarbeitung in die komplexen technischen Zusammenhänge als auch Verantwortlichen aus Verwaltung und Wirtschaft die Vorbereitung auf meist sehr weitgehende Entscheidungen über betriebliche, regionale, nationale und internationale Netze. Daneben erschließt das Buch Studenten der Nachrichtentechnik Gegenwart und Zukunft des Telekommunikationswesens.

Digitale Signalverarbeitung: Grundlagen, Theorie, Anwendungen in der Automatisierungstechnik (Hochschultext)

Die digitale Verarbeitung analoger Signale, und dies oft in hohen Raten, stellt eine zentrale Aufgabe sowohl experimentell arbeitender Naturwissenschaftler als auch der Ingenieure in Automatisierung oder im Versuchsfeld dar. Das Lehrbuch geht von den mathematischen Grundbegriffen der Funktionsanalysis aus und baut die digitale Signalverarbeitung als Zweig der Systemtheorie und Mathematik auf. Der Autor liefert eine systematische, geschlossene Darstellung, die nicht nur Teilaspekte behandelt. Eine große Zahl von Beispielen aus der Automatisierungstechnik stellen den unmittelbaren Praxisbezug her und liefern die Ansätze für Problemlösungen. Angesprochen werden daher nicht nur Studenten der Elektro- und Automatisierungstechnik, sondern auch Ingenieure in der industriellen Praxis, wie auch Naturwissenschaftler, die mit der Verarbeitung analoger Signale zu tun haben.

The Dirty Half Dozen: Six Radical Rules to Make Relationships Last

Everyone wants to have a nurturing, happy, working union with a spouse or loved one--but time after time, it can fail, fall flat, or not live up to expectations. Now, after surveying more than 30 years of psychiatric literature and submitting more than 1,000 relationship studies to computer analysis, a renowned psychiatrist offers a provocative new theory for successful, long-lasting love.