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Programming for Linguists: Java Technology for Language Researchers

ISBN: 978-0-470-69294-3

May 2008

Wiley-Blackwell

224 pages

Description

Programming for Linguists: Java (TM) Technology for Language Researchers is a practical introduction to programming using the Java Programming Language for linguists and related language professionals.

About the Author

Michael Hammond is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Arizona. He is the author of numerous books and articles on phonology, morphology, psychophonology, and computational linguistics, including Constraining Metrical Theory (1988), Phonology of English (1999), and Programming for Linguists: Perl for Language Researchers (Blackwell 2003).

Features

  • Exposes the general reader with an interest in language to the most usable and relevant aspects of Perl for writing programs that deal with language

  • Contains simple examples and exercises that gradually introduce the reader to the essentials of good programming

  • Assumes no prior programming experience

  • Accompanied by exercises at the end of each chapter and offers all the code on the companion website: http://www.u.arizona.edu/~hammond