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This handbook presents the first systematic account of corpus phonology - the employment of corpora, especially purpose-built phonological corpora of spoken language, for studying speakers&' and listeners&' acquisition and knowledge of the sound system of their native languages and the principles underlying those systems. The field combines methods...

A Compositional, Diagrammatic DiscourseNew scientific paradigms typically consist of an expansion of the conceptual language with which we describe the world. Over the past decade, theoretical physics and quantum information theory have turned to category theory to model and reason about quantum protocols. This new use of categorical and algebraic...

The past decades have seen a remarkable development of military operations both within the United Nations collective security system and in other international settings. While traditional forms of military operations have been maintained and further developed, there have also been substantive developments, responding to new challenges for...

The Modern Jurisprudence of Tribal Land RightsAboriginal title, the land rights of native peoples in former colonies, is one of the most significant developments in common law in the late-twentieth century. This book, by a key author in this field, sets out the beginnings, judicial acceptance, and influence of this doctrine across national...

A Dictionary of Chemical Engineering is one of the latest additions to the market leading Oxford Paperback Reference series. In over 3,400 concise and authoritative A to Z entries, it provides definitions and explanations for chemical engineering terms in areas including: materials, energy balances, reactions, separations, sustainability, safety,...

Suburban Sprawl and the Rebirth of American UrbanismMore than five decades have passed since Jane Jacobs wrote her classic The Death and Life of Great American Cities, and since a front page headline in the New York Times read, "e;Cars Choking Cities as &'Urban Sprawl&' Takes Over."e; Yet sprawl persists, and not by mistake. It happens for...