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<p><font size="2" face="sans-serif">I personally like and suggest Introduction to Language, by Fromkin, Rodman, Hyams (Cengage Learning 2011). It is very nice for those with no prior knowledge and evoques significant issues with examples.<br>
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</font><font size="2" face="sans-serif">Best regards,<br>
</font><font size="2" face="sans-serif">Isabella Chiari<br>
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</font><font size="2" face="sans-serif">Il giorno 12/feb/2013, alle ore 18:51, "Diana Santos" <dianamsmpsantos@gmail.com> ha scritto:<br>
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</font><font size="2" face="sans-serif">> A completeley different way, but which I think could be interesting to<br>
</font><font size="2" face="sans-serif">> pursue, would be Keith Johnson's Quantitative methods in linguistics.<br>
</font><font size="2" face="sans-serif">> Blackwell, 2008.<br>
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</font><font size="2" face="sans-serif">> Although its purpose is to teach statistics, he uses examples from<br>
</font><font size="2" face="sans-serif">> almost all kinds of linguistic areas, and therefore may provide a nice<br>
</font><font size="2" face="sans-serif">> introduction to all sorts of other relevant linguistic areas of<br>
</font><font size="2" face="sans-serif">> inquiry, given that your concern is precisely that, if an NLPer is for<br>
</font><font size="2" face="sans-serif">> example in syntax, s/he has no knowledge of sociolinguistics,<br>
</font><font size="2" face="sans-serif">> phonetics or psycholinguistics, to name just a few of the other areas<br>
</font><font size="2" face="sans-serif">> covered by that book.<br>
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</font><font size="2" face="sans-serif">> Another one which is certainly outdated but has its merits for exactly<br>
</font><font size="2" face="sans-serif">> introducing the reader to a broad range of issues is Computers and<br>
</font><font size="2" face="sans-serif">> human language, by George W. Smith, 1991. I used it when I taught NLP<br>
</font><font size="2" face="sans-serif">> to computer science students back in 1994 :-)<br>
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</font><font size="2" face="sans-serif">> Hope to have helped,<br>
</font><font size="2" face="sans-serif">> Diana<br>
</font><font size="2" face="sans-serif">> --<br>
</font><font size="2" face="sans-serif">> Diana Santos<br>
</font><font size="2" face="sans-serif">> Univ. of Oslo<br>
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</font><font size="2" face="sans-serif">> 2013/2/12 Mcenery, Tony <a.mcenery@lancaster.ac.uk>:<br>
</font><font size="2" face="sans-serif">> > For a very broad introduction to the study of the English language, there is:<br>
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</font><font size="2" face="sans-serif">> > J. Culpeper, F. Katamba, P. Kerswill, R. Wodak, T. McEnery (Eds.) (2009) English Language: Description, Variation and Context Basingstoke: Palgrave.<br>
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</font><font size="2" face="sans-serif">> > From: corpora-bounces@uib.no [corpora-bounces@uib.no] on behalf of Dominic P Rout [d.rout@sheffield.ac.uk]<br>
</font><font size="2" face="sans-serif">> > Sent: 12 February 2013 13:55<br>
</font><font size="2" face="sans-serif">> > To: corpora@uib.no<br>
</font><font size="2" face="sans-serif">> > Subject: [Corpora-List] Broader linguistic resources<br>
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</font><font size="2" face="sans-serif">> > Hello all<br>
</font><font size="2" face="sans-serif">> ><br>
</font><font size="2" face="sans-serif">> > I was recently discussing the work of Steven Pinker with a colleague,<br>
</font><font size="2" face="sans-serif">> > and we talked about how one thing lacked by many PhD students in NLP<br>
</font><font size="2" face="sans-serif">> > is a broader understanding of language, outside of their chosen field.<br>
</font><font size="2" face="sans-serif">> ><br>
</font><font size="2" face="sans-serif">> > It was suggested that I ask this list the following question:<br>
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</font><font size="2" face="sans-serif">> > What are some useful, broad and accessible overview books about<br>
</font><font size="2" face="sans-serif">> > language (specifically in English) that might be useful to a student<br>
</font><font size="2" face="sans-serif">> > of NLP wishing to broaden their horizons?<br>
</font><font size="2" face="sans-serif">> ><br>
</font><font size="2" face="sans-serif">> > Does anyone have any answers, or starting points?<br>
</font><font size="2" face="sans-serif">> ><br>
</font><font size="2" face="sans-serif">> > Thanks<br>
</font><font size="2" face="sans-serif">> > Dominic Rout<br>
</font><font size="2" face="sans-serif">> > PhD Student<br>
</font><font size="2" face="sans-serif">> > Natural Language Processing Group<br>
</font><font size="2" face="sans-serif">> > The University of Sheffield<br>
</font><font size="2" face="sans-serif">> > <a href="http://domrout.co.uk">http://domrout.co.uk</a><br>
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