In 1997, the Encyclopedia of Language and Education was published as an award-winning collection of eight volumes, under the general editorship of David Corson. This reference set signaled the maturity of language and education as an international and interdisciplinary field of significance and cohesion. Now in a second, revised edition, this 10 volume set of the Encyclopedia brings forth the newest developments in the field, including two new volumes of research and scholarly content essential to the field of language teaching and learning in the age of globalization.
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This volume contains a collection of writings that focuses on semantic phenomena and their interpretation in the analysis of the language of a learner. The variety of phenomena that are addressed is substantial: temporal aspect and tense, specificity, quantification, scope, finiteness, focus structure, and focus particles. The number of languages in which these phenomena are investigated is very large as well: Dutch, English, German, Inuktitut, Italian, Japanese, and Polish, to name a few.
Volume 1 of Approaches to Bootstrapping focuses on early word learning and syntactic development with special emphasis on the bootstrapping mechanisms by which the child using properties of the speech input enters the native linguistic system.
To get such a pragmatic mastery of inequalities, you surely need a comprehensive knowledge of basic inequalities at first. The goal of the first part of the book (chapters 1-8) is to lay down the foundations you will need in the second part (chapter g), here solving problems will give you some practice. It is important to try and solve the problems by yourself as hard as you can, since only practice will develop your understanding, especially the problems in the second part.
