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Language acquisition and historical change
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ISBN: 0444850775 Year: 1977 Volume: 36 Publisher: Amsterdam North-Holland

Always on : language in an online and mobile world.
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ISBN: 9780195313055 0195313054 0199735441 0199871094 9786611341992 0198042701 1281341991 9786612501081 019974131X 1282501089 Year: 2008 Publisher: Oxford Oxford university press

Alphabet to email : how written English evolved and where it's heading
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ISBN: 0415186862 0415186854 0203272277 0203194314 1134663080 1280326646 1134663072 9780415186858 Year: 2000 Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge,

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Alphabet to Email explores the ever-changing relationship between speech and writing and considers the implications of current language trends on the future of written English.


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Words onscreen
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ISBN: 9780199315772 0199315787 0199315779 1322411948 9781322411941 9780199315765 0199315760 9780199315789 Year: 2015 Publisher: New York [New York]

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People have been reading on computer screens for several decades now, predating popularization of personal computers and widespread use of the internet. But it was the rise of eReaders and tablets that caused digital reading to explode. In 2007, Amazon introduced its first Kindle. Three years later, Apple debuted the iPad. Meanwhile, as mobile phone technology improved and smartphones proliferated, the phone became another vital reading platform.In Words Onscreen, Naomi Baron, an expert on language and technology, explores how technology is reshaping our understanding of what it means to read. Digital reading is increasingly popular. Reading onscreen has many virtues, including convenience, potential cost-savings, and the opportunity to bring free access to books and other written materials to people around the world. Yet, Baron argues, the virtues of eReading are matched with drawbacks. Users are easily distracted by other temptations on their devices, multitasking is rampant, and screens coax us to skim rather than read in-depth. What is more, if the way we read is changing, so is the way we write. In response to changing reading habits, many authors and publishers are producing shorter works and ones that don't require reflection or close reading.In her tour through the new world of eReading, Baron weights the value of reading physical print versus online text, including the question of what long-standing benefits of reading might be lost if we go overwhelmingly digital. She also probes how the internet is shifting reading from being a solitary experience to a social one, and the reasons why eReading has taken off in some countries, especially the United States and United Kingdom, but not others, like France and Japan. Reaching past the hype on both sides of the discussion, Baron draws upon her own cross-cultural studies to offer a clear-eyed and balanced analysis of the ways technology is affecting the ways we read today--and what the future might bring.


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Speech, Writing, and Sign : A Functional View of Linguistic Representation
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ISBN: 0253051207 Year: 1980 Publisher: Indiana University Press

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Linguistics has traditionally dealt with questions about structure—what are the parts of a language and how are they assembled? Naomi Baron adopts a new approach by asking what a human language is used for and how it achieves its goals. She carefully examines what is communicated, why it is important. and how the exchange is accomplished. In the process of this basic redefinition, she fashions a lucid, systematic introduction to the study of linguistics. The initial chapters discuss language as a source and solution to problems of human communication, the various aspects of representation, the definition of human language, and a methodology for the functional analysis of language. The three chapters that follow fully explore this functional perspective for spoken, written, and signed languages, and offer new evidence to demonstrate the effect of social context on linguistic structure. Speech, Writing, and Sign is profusely illustrated with drawings, photographs, and reproductions of artistic examples. Written to be accessible to beginning students, this book will also interest linguistic scholars because of its challenges to current linguistic theory.


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How we read now : strategic choices for print, screen, and audio
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ISBN: 9780190084097 9780190084127 9780190084110 0190084111 019008409X 019008412X 0190084103 Year: 2021 Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press,

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"The digital revolution has transformed reading. Onscreen text, audiobooks, podcasts, and videos often replace print. We make these swaps for pleasure reading, but also in schools. How We Read Now is a ringside seat to the impact of reading medium on learning. Teachers, administrators, librarians, and policymakers need to make decisions about classroom materials. College students must weigh their options. And parents face choices for their children. Digital selections are often based on cost or convenience, not educational evidence. Current research offers essential findings about how print and digital reading compare when the aim is learning. Yet the gap between what scholars and the larger public know is huge. How We Read Now closes the gap. The book begins by sizing up the state of reading today, revealing how little reading students have been doing. The heart of the book connects research insights to practical applications. Baron draws on work from international researchers, along with results from her collaborative studies of student reading practices ranging from middle school through college. The result is an impartial view of the evidence, including where the jury is still out. The book closes with two challenges. The first is that students increasingly complain print is boring. And second, for all the educational buzz about teaching critical thinking, digital reading is inherently ill-suited for cultivating these habits of mind. Since screens and audio are now entrenched - and valuable - platforms for reading, we need to rethink how to help learners use them wisely"--


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Diachrony and child language phylogenetic reflections of ontogenetic processes.
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Year: 1976 Publisher: Bloomington (Ind.) : Indiana University. Linguistics club,

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Diachrony and child language phylogenetic reflections of ontogenetic processes
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Year: 1976 Publisher: Bloomington, Ind. Indiana University Linguistics Club

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Who wrote this? : How AI and the lure of efficiency threaten human writing
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ISBN: 9781503633223 9781503637900 1503637905 Year: 2023 Publisher: Stanford Stanford University Press

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"Would you read this book if a computer wrote it? Would you even know? And why would it matter? Today's eerily impressive artificial intelligence writing tools present us with a crucial challenge: As writers, do we unthinkingly adopt AI's time-saving advantages or do we stop to weigh what we gain and lose when heeding their siren call? To understand how AI is redefining what it means to write and think, linguist and educator Naomi Baron leads us on a journey connecting the dots between human literacy and today's technology. From nineteenth century lessons in composition, to mathematician Alan Turing's work creating a machine for deciphering war-time messages, to contemporary engines like ChatGPT, Baron gives readers a spirited overview of the emergence of both literacy and AI, and a glimpse of their possible future. As the technology becomes increasingly sophisticated and fluent, it's tempting to take the easy way out and let AI do the work for us. Baron cautions that such efficiency isn't always in our interest. As AI plies us with suggestions or full-blown text, we risk losing not just our technical skills but the power of writing as a springboard for personal reflection and unique expression. Funny, informed, and conversational, Who Wrote This? urges us as individuals and as communities to make conscious choices about the extent to which we collaborate with AI. The technology is here to stay. Baron shows us how to work with AI and how to spot where it risks diminishing the valuable cognitive and social benefits of being literate"--


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Pigeon-birds and rhyming words : the role of parents in language learning
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ISBN: 0136628753 Year: 1990 Publisher: Englewood Cliffs (N.J.): Prentice Hall

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