This accessible textbook is the only introduction to linguistics in which each chapter is written by an expert who teaches courses on that topic, ensuring balanced and uniformly excellent coverage of the full range of modern linguistics. Assuming no prior knowledge the text offers a clear introduction to the traditional topics of structural linguistics (theories of sound, form, meaning, and language change), and in addition provides full coverage of contextual linguistics, including separate chapters on discourse, dialect variation, language and culture, and the politics of language. There are also up-to-date separate chapters on language and the brain, computational linguistics, writing, child language acquisition, and second-language learning. The breadth of the textbook makes it ideal for introductory courses on language and linguistics offered by departments of English, sociology, anthropology, and communications, as well as by linguistics departments.
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This accessible textbook is the only introduction to linguistics in which each chapter is written by an expert who teaches courses on that topic, ensuring balanced and uniformly excellent coverage of the full range of modern linguistics.
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One of the biggest obstacles phoneticians face is that they can't see the objects they are studying. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
direct brain recording, tongue body moves, toy grammar, high dialect, nonlanguage functions, low dialect, bilingual maintenance, phonetic determinative, recursive devices, complementary schismogenesis, passive articulators, inflection phrase, intensional meaning, parental diaries, crosscultural differences, cognate sets, child language acquisition, thematic grid, recipient language, active articulators, complementizer phrase, determiner phrase, social interactionism, one bagel, language standardization Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Old English, United States, New York, Binding Theory, American English, Middle English, African American, Cambridge University Press, British English, South Asian, Exercises Exercise, Great Vowel Shift, Middle Ages, Mandarin Chinese, Tok Pisin, Noam Chomsky, North Carolina, Specific Language Impairment, Elvis Presley, Latin America, Smith Island, Classical Arabic, Columbus Circle, Jacques Chirac, Communicative Language Teaching New!
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direct brain recording, tongue body moves, toy grammar, high dialect, nonlanguage functions, low dialect, bilingual maintenance, phonetic determinative, recursive devices, complementary schismogenesis, passive articulators, inflection phrase, intensional meaning, parental diaries, crosscultural differences, cognate sets, child language acquisition, thematic grid, recipient language, active articulators, complementizer phrase, determiner phrase, social interactionism, one bagel, language standardization Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Old English, United States, New York, Binding Theory, American English, Middle English, African American, Cambridge University Press, British English, South Asian, Exercises Exercise, Great Vowel Shift, Middle Ages, Mandarin Chinese, Tok Pisin, Noam Chomsky, North Carolina, Specific Language Impairment, Elvis Presley, Latin America, Smith Island, Classical Arabic, Columbus Circle, Jacques Chirac, Communicative Language Teaching New!
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- The Minimalist Program (Current Studies in Linguistics) by Noam Chomsky on page 121, and Back Matter
- Sociolinguistic Patterns (Conduct and Communication) by William Labov on page 317, and page 318
- Second Language Acquisition (Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics) by Wolfgang Klein in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Hoi Toide on the Outer Banks: The Story of the Ocracoke Brogue by Walt Wolfram on page 340, and Back Matter
- Canterbury Tales (Barron's Book Notes) by Chaucer on page 276, and page 291
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