Linguistics : an introduction
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Linguistics : an introduction
[Produced by Amazon], [20--]
2nd ed
- : pbk
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Reprint. Originally published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2009
Description based on 5th printing, 2012
"First published 1999"--T.p. verso
Includes bibliographical references (p. 415-421) and index
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Written by a team based at one of the world's leading centres for linguistic teaching and research, the second edition of this highly successful textbook offers a unified approach to language, viewed from a range of perspectives essential for students' understanding of the subject. Using clear explanations throughout, the book is divided into three main sections: sounds, words, and sentences. In each, the foundational concepts are introduced, along with their application to the fields of child language acquisition, psycholinguistics, language disorders, and sociolinguistics, giving the book a unique yet simple structure that helps students to engage with the subject more easily than other textbooks on the market. This edition includes a completely new section on sentence use, including an introduction and discussion of core areas of pragmatics and conversational analysis; coverage of sociolinguistic topics, introducing communities of practice; a wealth of new exercise material and updated further reading.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Part I. Sounds: 1. Introduction
- 2. Sounds and suprasegmentals
- 3. Sound variation
- 4. Sound change
- 5. Phonemes, syllables and phonological processes
- 6. Child phonology
- 7. Processing sounds
- Part II. Words: 8. Introduction
- 9. Word classes
- 10. Building words
- 11. Morphology across languages
- 12. Word meaning
- 13. Children and words
- 14. Lexical processing and the mental lexicon
- 15. Lexical disorders
- 16. Lexical variation and change
- Part III. Sentences: 17. Introduction
- 18. Basic terminology
- 19. Sentence structure
- 20. Empty categories
- 21. Movement
- 22. Syntactic variation
- 23. Sentence meanings and logical form
- 24. Children's sentences
- 25. Sentence processing
- 26. Syntactic disorders
- 27. Using sentences.
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