Robert L Ladd

A remote island nation perishes in fire and storm, leaving a few survivors lost on the shores of a strange land. One man is snatched from the jaws of death by an angry and curious dragon; he finds unexpected new friends. The people from his homeland are scattered, confused, and far from united — and...

Artificial life has been a favorite topic for programmers since the late 1960s, when they first simulated organisms with simple programs like the famous "Game of Life". Ladd explores the contemporary descendants of these experiments, showing programmers how to take advantage of genetic algorithms an...

A genetic algorithm is an algorithm that the computer evaluates, alters slightly and then re-evaluates to see how the change affected the outcome. Genetic algorithms are useful for artificial intelligence, theoretical modeling and prediction programs. This book covers theoretical to practical applic...

In this book, D. Robert Ladd focuses on problems with the one-dimensional idealization of language on which much linguistic theory is based. Strings of sequentially-ordered elements play an important role as theoretical abstractions in both phonology and syntax. Yet many well-known phonological phe...

This second edition presents a completely revised overview of research on intonational phonology since the 1970s, including new material on research developments since the mid 1990s. It contains a new section discussing the research on the alignment of pitch features that has developed since the fir...

Part Two of the trilogy "Rachel's Confession."

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