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can be seen as a branch of applied linguistics , dealing with computer processing of human language. Automatic translation between natural languages, text processing and communication between people and computers are among its central concerns. Speech recognition and understanding and speech synthesis allow people to communicate with computers using spoken language. Computational grammars with top-down and bottom-up processing capabilities have been developed in this connection. computer-assisted language learning programmes are among numerous applications of the new technology. Computerized corpora of written and spoken texts facilitate research on usage using concordances . (See also corpus linguistics .) ( 1992 ). Computers and Written Texts . Oxford : Blackwell . * ( 1993 ). An Introduction to Language . 5th edn. Fort Worth, TX : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich [Chapter 3] . ( 1987 ). The Computational Analysis of English . London : Longman . ( 1987 ). Computational linguistics . In ), New Horizons in Linguistics 2: An introduction to contemporary linguistic research . London : Penguin Books , 225 – 48 . ( 1986 ). Computational Linguistics: An introduction . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press . * . ... log in or subscribe to read full text