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Colourful Semantics

Author : NHS Forth Valley

Publisher : Routledge

Page : 273 pages

File Size : 33,92 MB

Release : 2020-05-07

Category : Education

ISBN : 0429555660

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*Purchasers of this book can access additional online resources at www.routledge.com/cw/speechmark* This comprehensive resource pack, developed in conjunction with education staff, draws on the principles of Alison Bryan’s original Colourful Semantics approach to provide professionals with an engaging, dynamic way to support children’s language development. By coding sentences using colour, symbols and signs, this visual approach aims to: Teach understanding of question words Develop vocabulary and increase sentence complexity Increase range and complexity of verbs (children with delayed or disordered spoken language skills often overuse simple verbs such as do, go or get) Improve children’s written language skills This practical resource consists of three parts: a printed book containing ready-made session plan ideas, black and white vocabulary cards and worksheets; an online version using the current Colourful Semantics colour coding system, and an online version using the colour coding system used by Speech and Language Therapists from NHS Forth Valley. This is an essential pack for teachers and professionals looking to work on language development with children aged four to nine. The flexible session plans can be used with individuals, small groups and whole classes, and can be easily adapted by Speech and Language Therapists, teachers and other practitioners.



The Semantics of Colour

Author : C. P. Biggam

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 273 pages

File Size : 50,77 MB

Release : 2012-03-29

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 1107377706

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Human societies name and classify colours in various ways. Knowing this, is it possible to retrieve colour systems from the past? This book presents the basic principles of modern colour semantics, including the recognition of basic vocabulary, subsets, specialised terms and the significance of non-colour features. Each point is illustrated by case studies drawn from modern and historical languages from around the world. These include discussions of Icelandic horses, Peruvian guinea-pigs, medieval roses, the colour yellow in Stuart England, and Polynesian children's colour terms. Major techniques used in colour research are presented and discussed, such as the evolutionary sequence, Natural Semantic Metalanguage and Vantage Theory. The book also addresses whether we can understand the colour systems of the past, including prehistory, by combining various semantic techniques currently used in both modern and historical colour research with archaeological and environmental information.



We Are All Different

Author : Twinkl Originals

Publisher : Twinkl

Page : 18 pages

File Size : 37,76 MB

Release : 2019-07-31

Category : Juvenile Fiction

ISBN : 1916033938

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There are lots of different people in the world and all of them are different. "We are all different. We are all friends!" There's no one quite like you. What makes you special? Download the full eBook and explore supporting teaching materials at www.twinkl.com/originals Join Twinkl Book Club to receive printed story books every half-term at www.twinkl.co.uk/book-club (UK only).



Language Disorders in Children and Adults

Author : Shula Chiat

Publisher : John Wiley & Sons

Page : 278 pages

File Size : 48,23 MB

Release : 2008-04-30

Category : Medical

ISBN : 0470698578

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Each chapter is written by a speech and language therapist specialising in psycholinguistic approaches to investigation and intervention. Authors were invited to present a single case in one of four given areas â?? speech processing, lexical processing, sentence processing and pragmatics. The editors have provided introductions to each subject area and a discussion of the findings at the end of each section.



The Cautious Caterpillar

Author : Twinkl Originals

Publisher : Twinkl

Page : 18 pages

File Size : 43,92 MB

Release : 2018-05-14

Category : Juvenile Fiction

ISBN : 1999783557

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Cody the Caterpillar is nervous about changing into a butterfly. "Flying looks very tiring," said Cody, "I wish I could stay as a caterpillar forever!" Will some encouragement from her minibeast friends help her to be brave? Join Cody as she learns to embrace her exciting transformation. Download the full eBook and explore supporting teaching materials at www.twinkl.com/originals Join Twinkl Book Club to receive printed story books every half-term at www.twinkl.co.uk/book-club (UK only).



Semantics

Author : James R. Hurford

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 308 pages

File Size : 14,23 MB

Release : 1983-04-28

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 9780521289498

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Introduces the major elements of semantics in a simple, step-by-step fashion. Sections of explanation and examples are followed by practice exercises with answers and comment provided.



Back to Earth With a Bump

Author : Twinkl Originals

Publisher : Twinkl

Page : 21 pages

File Size : 24,76 MB

Release : 2017-12-12

Category : Juvenile Fiction

ISBN : 1999783522

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Hal is a boy with a very important mission from Earth: "Please find us the Sun – it has gone from the sky." Can Hal find the Sun before he comes back down to Earth with a bump? An out-of-this-world story that will take you on an exciting voyage through our solar system. Download the full eBook and explore supporting teaching materials at www.twinkl.com/originals Join Twinkl Book Club to receive printed story books every half-term at www.twinkl.co.uk/book-club (UK only).



Semantic Fields in Sign Languages

Author : Ulrike Zeshan

Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Page : 477 pages

File Size : 41,80 MB

Release : 2016-02-22

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 1501503324

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Typological studies require a broad range of linguistic data from a variety of countries, especially developing nations whose languages are under-researched. This is especially challenging for investigations of sign languages, because there are no existing corpora for most of them, and some are completely undocumented. To examine three cross-linguistically fruitful semantic fields in sign languages from a typological perspective for the first time, a detailed questionnaire was generated and distributed worldwide through emails, mailing lists, websites and the newsletter of the World Federation of the Deaf (WFD). This resulted in robust data on kinship, colour and number in 32 sign languages across the globe, 10 of which are revealed in depth within this volume. These comprise languages from Europe, the Americas and the Asia-Pacific region, including Indonesian sign language varieties, which are rarely studied. Like other volumes in this series, this book will be illuminative for typologists, students of linguistics and deaf studies, lecturers, researchers, interpreters, and sign language users who travel internationally.



Progress in Colour Studies: Language and culture

Author : Carole Patricia Biggam

Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing

Page : 235 pages

File Size : 23,15 MB

Release : 2006-01-01

Category : Art

ISBN : 9027232393

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Along with its companion volume, this book offers a fascinating glimpse into the current avenues of research into colour, a phenomenon which daily affects all our lives in often surprising ways. The majority of the papers originated in a 2004 conference entitled 'Progress in Colour Studies' which was held in the University of Glasgow, U.K. The contributions to this first volume, which is principally linguistic and anthropological in content, and to its companion on the psychological aspects of colour, present either summaries of state-of-the-art colour research in various disciplines, or in-depth accounts of certain aspects of such work. This volume includes approaches such as Natural Semantic Metalanguage, social network analysis, quantitative analysis, type modification, vantage theory, the centrality of social norms of inference, place-names and heraldry. In the process, new insights are offered into the following languages: English, French, Portuguese, Sorbian, Burarra, Cape Breton Gaelic, Tzotzil, and others.



Language strategies for the domain of colour

Author : Bleys, Joris

Publisher : Language Science Press

Page : 241 pages

File Size : 44,36 MB

Release : 2015-11-05

Category : Color

ISBN : 394623416X

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This book presents a major leap forward in the understanding of colour by showing how richer descriptions of colour samples can be operationalized in agent-based models. Four different language strategies are explored: the basic colour strategy, the graded membership strategy, the category combination strategy and the basic modification strategy. These strategies are firmly rooted in empirical observations in natural languages, with a focus on compositionality at both the syntactic and semantic level. Through a series of in-depth experiments, this book discerns the impact of the environment, language and embodiment on the formation of basic colour systems. Finally, the experiments demonstrate how language users can invent their own language strategies of increasing complexity by combining primitive cognitive operators, and how these strategies can be aligned between language users through linguistic interactions.