Essential introductory linguistics
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| Language: | English |
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Malden, Mass. :
Blackwell Publishers ,
c2000
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Signs and Sign Systems
- 2. Phonetics
- 3. Phones and Phonemes
- 4. Morphemes
- 5. The Lexicon and Morphological Rules
- 6. Sentences and Syntax
- 7. Phrase Structure Rules
- 8. Child Language Learning
- 9. Explanations of Child Language Learning
- 10. Language and the Brain
- 11. Adult Language Learning
- 12. Animal Languages?
- 13. Phonological Rules
- 14. Phonological Features
- 15. Six Ways to Get New Words
- 16. Seven More Ways to Get New Words
- 17. Sentence Meaning
- 18. Sentence Form
- 19. Pragmatics: Inferring Meaning in Context
- 20. The Unity of Languages
- 21. The Basic History of Writing
- 22. The Ecology of Writing
- 23. Three Characteristics of Language Change
- 24. Eight Causes of Language Change
- 25. Language Families
- 26. Dialects and Other Sociolects
- 27. Register
- 28. The History of Linguistics