Books written by Gillian Brown

Questions of Intonation

The importance of this view of information structure has been stressed in a long series of experiments by Clark (discussed in Clark and Clark, 1977) who leans on Halliday's account of the tonic. Clark claims that the hearer must use ...
Sense and Nonsense: Evolutionary Perspectives on Human Behaviour

Following the early work by Cavalli-Sforza and Feldman (1973), Sally Otto, an evolutionary biologist at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, together with colleagues Freddie Christiansen and Marc Feldman (1995) combined ...
Sleep Talk

Sleep Talk
Questions of Intonation

... printout of the analysis of pitch by the Frøkjaer-Jensen Transpitchmeter and of intensity by the Frøkjaer-Jensen Intensity Meter: We measured the fundamental frequency (Fo) of each pitch movement in cycles per second (cps) and drew ...
Questions of Intonation

First published in 1980, this book questions many of the assumptions that have accumulated around the subject of intonation as it occurs in spontaneous speech, as well as texts read aloud.
The Consent of the Governed: The Lockean Legacy in Early American Culture

chapter is Liberty Tree , the Thomas Paine Reader , ed . Michael Foot and Isaac Kramnick ( London : Penguin , 1987 ) , 63-64 . Paine began work on his pamphlet in the fall of 1775 and Common Sense first appeared in January 1776 . 28.
Questions of Intonation

First published in 1980, this book questions many of the assumptions that have accumulated around the subject of intonation as it occurs in spontaneous speech, as well as texts read...
Questions of Intonation

First published in 1980, this book questions many of the assumptions that have accumulated around the subject of intonation as it occurs in spontaneous speech, as well as texts read aloud.
Discourse Analysis

Grimes, J. E. (1975) The Thread of Discourse The Hague: Mouton Grimes, J. E. (ed.) (1978) Papers on Discourse Summer Institute of Linguistics, Dallas, Texas Grosz, B. (1979) 'Focusing in dialog' American Journal of Computational ...
Performance and Competence in Second Language Acquisition

Schumann , J. ( 1988 ) Lectures delivered in a course entitled : ' Pidgins , creoles and early interlanguages ' . ... Selinker , L. ( 1992 ) Rediscovering Interlanguage . ... ( 1987 ) LSP and Interlanguage : Some empirical studies .
Teacher Education for Languages for Specific Purposes

This work summarizes and synthesizes the substantial crime prevention literature to provide an approachable and comprehensive text for students. It sets out a critical analysis in the context of the politics of criminal justice policy.
Listening to Spoken English

Chapter six of the first edition has disappeared: in 1977, very little work had been published on "fillers" and it seemed worthwhile incorporating a chapter that sat rather oddly with the phonetic/phonological interests of the rest of the ...