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 |
Copyright | |
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