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  1. Writing Panare - Portrait of a Linguist on Fieldwork (1996 Video)

    Director
    Paul Henley
    Subject
    Anthropology; Linguistics
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 30 min., 2001 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Marie-Claude Muller is a linguist who has been commissioned by the Venezuelan government to prepare reading primers in Panare as part of their literacy programme. She is shown gathering a range of materials...

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  2. Aspiration (1995 Video)

    Subject
    Linguistics; Medical sciences
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassettess. VHS col. 54 min., 1998 sale: £125.00 (inc. VAT +p&p)

    A review of the basic characteristics of apraxic deficits and a description of possible clinical variants applicable to apraxia of speech. A form of congenital dysarthria is described and compared and...

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  3. Steven Pinker (1995 Video)

    Subject
    Linguistics
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 49 min., 1996 sale: £40.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Steven Pinker’s work ‘The Language Instinct,' argues that human language is not an invention, but a natural instinct unique to man. Here Pinker introduces his thinking and the arguments that support his...

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  4. Assessment and Management of Auditory and Language Processing Problems in Children with Add (1994 Video)

    Subject
    Linguistics; Medical sciences
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 66 min., 1998 sale: £80.50 (+p&p)

    Looks at auditory processing problems found in children with attention deficit disorder (ADD), describes the means for identifying those problems, and teaches specific management and treatment strategies...

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  5. Developing Language (1994)

    Producer
    Geoff Wheeler
    Subject
    Linguistics; Psychology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (DVD-R, 24 minutes), £34.99 (CM)

    Charts the development of children’s language from birth to age five before asking, ‘What is left to learn?'. Uses narrative and children’s jokes to show that language development in the early school...

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  6. Genie (1994 Video)

    Producer
    Linda Garman; Colin Poole
    Subject
    Linguistics; Psychology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    A girl who had spent the first 13 years of her life locked inside a single room tethered to a potty, was virtually mute when she eventually escaped. She had never had a normal human relationship. The...

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  7. Language and Consciousness (1994 Video)

    Subject
    Linguistics; Psychology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS (NTSC). col. 120 min., 1997 sale: US$139.00 (+p&p) (NTSC only)

    Dr Stephen Pinker explores the connections between language and consciousness. Sections are: 1) Are our thoughts shaped by the language we use?; 2) How we understand language; 3) The evolution of language;...

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  8. Practical Phonetics (3 Parts) (1994 Video)

    Subject
    Linguistics; Medical sciences
    Distribution
    Hire Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 60, 52, 32 min., 1994 sale: £30.00 each (VHS), £80.00 set (+VAT +p&p)

    A 15-unit video course on three tapes providing self-study material for use by students acquiring practical phonetic skills of consonant and vowel identification and discrimination. The course covers most of...

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  9. Before Babel (1992 Video)

    Subject
    Linguistics
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Is it possible that all human languages share a common ancestor? Since William Jones discovered the link between English and Sanskrit in 1783, the existence of a group of languages known as Indo-European has...

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  10. Language and Literature (1986 Video)

    Subject
    English language and literature; Linguistics
    Distribution
    Off-air recording licence Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min., 1998 sale: £85.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    In 2 parts: Part 1 investigates what verbal language is and how it works. Shows that although words are essentially different from the things they refer to by combining them according to the rules of a...

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