Contemporary linguistics: an introductionThis book is a comprehensive, fully up-to-date introduction to linguistics. All the core topics of linguistics are covered, including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, the genetic and typological classification of the languages of the world, and historical linguistics. Interdisciplinary areas discussed include language and the brain, psycholinguistics - the study of language processing, first and second language acquisition, language in social contexts and computational linguistics. |
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Contents
grammars change over time | 9 |
the sounds of language | 18 |
Consonant articulation | 25 |
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adjective affricates allomorphs allophones alveolar analysis articulatory assignment assimilation auxiliary base called Cambridge chapter cognitive common complement compounds consonant consonantal contrast deep structure derived dialects diphthongs direct object discussion elements epenthesis example Figure French fricative glide glottal grammar human language illustrate Infl inflectional affixes inversion involves language acquisition Latin learners lexical lexical categories linguistic manner of articulation meaning minimal pairs morpheme morphological nasal nasal consonant noun occur Old English past tense patterns phonetic phonological phrase structure phrase structure rules place of articulation plural position pronounced pronunciation question refer representation represented result root second language segments semantic sonorant sound change Spanish specifier speech spoken stress suffix syllable symbol syntax Table thematic role tone tongue transcribed underlying underlying representation University utterances variation velar verb vocal folds voiced voiceless stops vowel reduction word order
Bibliographic information
| Title | Contemporary linguistics: an introduction Learning about language Longman Sociology Series |
| Authors | William Delaney O'Grady, Michael Dobrovolsky, Francis Katamba |
| Editors | William Delaney O'Grady, Michael Dobrovolsky, Francis Katamba |
| Contributor | William Delaney O'Grady |
| Edition | 3, illustrated, reprint |
| Publisher | Longman, 1996 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | Feb 12, 2008 |
| ISBN | 0582246911, 9780582246911 |
| Length | 755 pages |
| Subjects | › › Language Arts & Disciplines / General Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / General Linguistics Taalwetenschap./ gtt |
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