Applications of Linguistics [Paperback]

The Second International Congress of Applied Linguistics of 1969, provided scholarly papers from all over the world on applied linguistics.The Second International Congress of Applied Linguistics, held in Cambridge (812 September 1969), provided papers from all over the world to different subjects within the linguistic family. This book is a fascinating and useful work of reference for all concerned with applied linguistics.The Second International Congress of Applied Linguistics, held in Cambridge (812 September 1969), provided papers from all over the world to different subjects within the linguistic family. This book is a fascinating and useful work of reference for all concerned with applied linguistics.The Second International Congress of Applied Linguistics, held in Cambridge (812 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 l³&