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Linguistics for Everyone : An Introduction
ISBN: 9781413015898 | 1413015891
Edition: 1stFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Cengage Learning
Pub. Date: 3/6/2009
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LINGUISTICS FOR EVERYONE: AN INTRODUCTION, First Edition contains many elements relating the study of linguistics to the language of communication in the real world. The text is organized to make the material easy to find and the content interesting and relevant to your life. The first chapter gives you the basics such as how to define language, new ways to look at grammar, your innate knowledge about language, animal communication systems, and so on. Later chapters address core linguistics areas in depth (phonetics and phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics). The many innovative and varied activities help you review and practice the content and offer ample opportunities to apply the knowledge immediately. Anyone with an interest in language will find much to enjoy in this new book by two respected educators.
| What Is Language And How Do We Study It? | |
| What is language? | |
| Knowledge of Language | |
| Our Language Expertise | |
| Acquiring versus Learning a Language | |
| Human Language and Animal Communication | |
| Can Other Animals Learn Language? | |
| Did you know . . .? | |
| Rico, the Talking Border Collie | |
| Two Case Studies: Washoe and Nim | ... MORE|
| What Is Grammar? | |
| The Components of Grammar | |
| What Is Grammatical? | |
| Prescriptive and Descriptive Grammar | |
| When Prescription and Description Overlap | |
| Modification: Another Overlap | |
| Grammar across Space and Time | |
| Linguistics in the News: The Language Blog and Eggcorns | |
| Universal Grammar | |
| Parameters | |
| Sign Language Grammar | |
| Sign Language versus Body Language | |
| Language Alive! Sign Language Diversity | |
| The Scientific Study of Language | |
| Noam Chomsky and Generative Grammar | |
| Did you know . . . ? | |
| Noam Chomsky | |
| Influences on Modern Linguistics | |
| Rationalism and Empiricism | |
| Structural Linguistics | |
| Linguistics Today | |
| Accent on The Linguistic Society of America | |
| Summary | |
| Sources and Resources | |
| Review, Practice, and Explore | |
| The Human Capacity For Language | |
| Our Capacity to Acquire Language | |
| What Children's "Mistakes" Tell Us | |
| Mouses and Foots: Overgeneralizing Rules | |
| Language Alive! One Wug and Two . . . Wugs? | |
| Evidence for Universal Grammar | |
| Children Don't Learn by Analogy | |
| Stages of First Language Acquisition | |
| Prelinguistic Stage: The Early Months | |
| Babbling Stage: 4-8 Months | |
| Did You Know . . .? | |
| How Do You Study an Infant? | |
| The One-Word Stage (9-18 Months) | |
| The Two-Word Stage: 18-24 Months | |
| Language Alive! Hardwired for Words | |
| Early Multiword Stage: 24-30 Months | |
| Later Multiword Stage: 30 Months and Older | |
| Did You Know . . .? | |
| Baby Talk and Parentese | |
| Did You Know . . .? | |
| What about Baby Einstein? | |
| A Critical Period for Language Acquisition? | |
| Acquisition and Isolation: Victor and Genie | |
| Sign Language Acquisition | |
| Second Language Acquisition | |
| Is It Learning or Acquisition? | |
| Interlanguage Grammar | |
| Social Aspects of Second Language Acquisition | |
| Second Language Acquisition and Universal Grammar | |
| Two Native Languages: Bilingualism | |
| Misperceptions about Bilingualism | |
| Our Capacity to Create Language | |
| Pidgins and Creoles | |
| Linguistics in the News: A Gene for Language? | |
| Nicaraguan Sign Language | |
| Language and the Brain | |
| Language Intelligence? | |
| Specific Language Impairment | |
| Linguistic Savants | |
| Williams Syndrome | |
| A Language Center in the Brain? | |
| Did You Know . . .? | |
| Poor Phineas Gage | |
| Broca's Aphasia | |
| Wernicke's Aphasia | |
| More Evidence for Lateralization | |
| Dichotic Listening | |
| Split-Brain Patients | |
| Brain Imaging | |
| Accent on Clinical Linguistics | |
| Summary. | |
| Sources and Resources | |
| Review, Practice, and Explore | |
| Phonetics: Describing Sounds | |
| Sounds and Symbols | |
| Phonemes | |
| Consonants | |
| Did You Know . . .? | |
| Visible Speech | |
| Voiced and Voiceless Consonants | |
| Place of Articulation | |
| Bilabial | |
| Language Alive! A Disappearing Sound | |
| Labiodental | |
| Interdental | |
| Alveolar | |
| Palatal | |
| Velar | |
| Glottal | |
| Linguistics in the News: Ladefoged, Pioneer in Phonetics | |
| Manner of Articulation | |
| Stops Fricatives | |
| Language Alive! Why do we spell words with -ough? | |
| Affricates | |
| Nasals | |
| Did You Know . . .? | |
| Mom Is Bob? | |
| Glides | |
| Liquids | |
| Language Alive! Forgotten Clusters | |
| Why All These Distinctions? | |
| Slips of the Tongue | |
| Vowels | |
| Language Alive! Do Dawn and Don Rhyme? | |
| Diphthongs | |
| Syllabic Consonants | |
| Other Vowel Distinctions | |
| Language Alive! Double Is Not Long Vowel Shifts | |
| The Great Vowel Shift | |
| The Northern Cities Chain Shift | |
| The Southern Vowel Shift | |
| Phonemes and Allophones | |
| Accent on Product Naming | |
| Summary | |
| Sources and Resources | |
| Review, Practice, and Explore | |
| Phonology: The Sound Pattern Of language | |
| Phonemes and Allophones | |
| Did You Know . . .? | |
| Babies Are Better at Language | |
| Language Alive! Long-Lost English Allophones | |
| Assimilation Rules | |
| Vowel Nasalization | |
| Alveolar Nasal Assimilation | |
| Alveolar Stop Assimilation | |
| Palatalization | |
| Did You Know . . .? | |
| Invented Spelling | |
| Voicing Assimilation | |
| Dissimilation Rules | |
| Dissimilation of Liquid and Nasal Sounds | |
| Dissimilation of Fricative Sounds | |
| Insertion Rules | |
| Insertion of Vowels | |
| Insertion of Consonants | |
| Insertion of Voiceless Stop | |
| Insertion of /y/ | |
| Deletion Rules | |
| Language Alive! Where the Heck Is /h/? | |
| Deletion of /r/ after Vowels | |
| Deletion of Fricative Next to Fricative | |
| Did You Know . . .? | |
| Where Do You Get Tenashoes? | |
| Deletion of Like Sounds or Syllables | |
| Deletion of Consonant Clusters | |
| Deletion of Syllable-Final-Consonant Clusters | |
| Fronting Rules | |
| Fronting of Velar Nasal to Alveolar Nasal | |
| Fronting in Child Language | |
| Fronting of /x/ | |
| Exchange Rules | |
| Exchanging /s/ and a Consonant | |
| Language Alive! What's Wrong with Aks? | |
| Exchanging /r/ and Vowel | |
| Exchanging Syllable Onsets | |
| Language Alive! "Going Nucular" | |
| Stet | |
| Mispronunciation is the topic | |
| Multiple Rule Processes | |
| Suprasegmentals | |
| Syllables | |
| Structure of the Syllable | |
| Phonotactics | |
| Children's Syllables | |
| Syllable Structure Variety | |
| Slips of the Tongue and Syllables | |
| Stress | |
| Linguistics in the News: Tone Languages and Perfect Pitch | |
| Intonation | |
| Did You Know . . .? | |
| Abbish vs. Ubby Dubby | |
| Accent on Linguistics and Reading | |
| Summary | |
| Sources and Resources | |
| Review, Practice, and Explore | |
| Morphology: Words And Their Parts | |
| Morphemes and Meaning | |
| Morphemes and Syllables | |
| Recognizing Morphemes | |
| Word Classes | |
| Content Words | |
| Function Words | |
| Did You Know . . .? | |
| Pooh on Pronouns | |
| Word Classes and Our Mental Lexicon | |
| Free and Bound Morphemes | |
| Affixes | |
| Language Alive! Embiggen His Soul! Roots | |
| Language Alive! What about Cranapple? | |
| Derivational AffixationLanguage Alive! Word-orama!Affixation and Our Mental Lexicon | |
| Drawing Word Trees | |
| Word Trees and Ambiguity | |
| Inflectional Affixation | |
| Linguistics in the News: Arkansas's Apostrophe | |
| Inflectional Affixation of English Nouns | |
| Number Case | |
| Pronouns and Genitive Case | |
| Language Alive! The Battle over Whom | |
| Gender | |
| Inflectional Affixation of English Verbs | |
| Infinitives, Present Tense, and Past Tense | |
| Present and Past Participles | |
| Participles as Markers of Social Class | |
| Suppletive Verbs and Adjectives | |
| Language Alive! Ain't had it easy! Accent on Field Linguistics | |
| Summary | |
| Sources and Resources | |
| Review, Practice, and Explore | |
| Morphology: Typology And WORD FORMATION | |
| Morphological Typology | |
| Synthetic Languages | |
| Did You Know . . . ? | |
| Solid Roundish Objects and Mushy Matter | |
| Analytic Languages | |
| Mixed Typological Systems | |
| Morphology of Other Languages | |
| Word Formation Processes | |
| Slang vs. New Words | |
| Linguistics in the News: F*ing Brilliant! FCC Rulings on Profanity | |
| Recent New Words | |
| Did You Know . . .? | |
| The Truth about Truthiness | |
| Coining | |
| Compounding | |
| Eponyms | |
| Blends | |
| Conversions | |
| Language Alive! Blimey! Acronyms | |
| Language Alive! Ms | |
| Clipping | |
| Backformation | |
| Reduplication | |
| Accent on Lexicographers | |
| Summary | |
| Sources and Resources | |
| Review, Practice, and Explore | |
| Syntax: Heads And Phrases | |
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