An introduction to language /
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| Author / Creator: | Fromkin, Victoria. |
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| Edition: | 9th ed. |
| Imprint: | Boston, MA : Wadsworth, Cengage Learning, c2011. |
| Description: | xx, 619 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8300268 |
Table of Contents:
- Part 1. The Nature Of Human Language
- 1. What Is Language?
- Linguistic Knowledge
- What Is Grammar?
- Animal "Languages." In the Beginning: The Origin of Language and Thought
- What We Know about Language
- 2. Brain and Language
- The Human Brain
- The Autonomy of Language
- Language and Brain Development
- Part 2. Grammatical Aspects Of Language
- 3. Morphology: The Words of Language
- Dictionaries
- Content Words and Function Words
- Morphemes: The Minimal Units of Meaning
- Rules of Word Formation
- Sign Language Morphology
- Morphological Analysis: Identifying Morphemes
- 4. Syntax: The Sentence Patterns of Language
- What the Syntax Rules Do
- Sentence Structure
- Sentence Relatedness
- UG Principles and Parameters
- Sign Language Syntax
- 5. The Meaning of Language
- What Speakers Know about Sentence Meaning
- Compositional Semantics
- Lexical Semantics (Word Meanings)
- Pragmatics
- 6. Phonetics: The Sounds of Language
- Sound Segments
- Articulatory Phonetics
- Prosodic Features
- Phonetic Symbols and Spelling Correspondences
- The "Phonetics" of Signed Languages
- 7. Phonology: The Sound Patterns of Language
- The Pronunciation of Morphemes
- Phonemes: The Phonological Units of Language
- Distinctive Features of Phonemes
- The Rules of Phonology
- Prosodic Phonology
- Sequential Constraints of Phonemes
- Why Do Phonological Rules Exist?
- Phonological Analysis
- Part 3. The Psychology Of Language
- 8. Language Acquisition
- Mechanisms of Language Acquisition
- Knowing More Than One Language
- 9. Language Processing: Humans and Computers
- The Human Mind at Work: Human Language Processing
- Computer Processing of Human Language
- Part 4. Language And Society
- 10. Language in Society
- Dialects
- Language and Education
- Language in Use
- 11. Language Change: The Syllables of Time
- The Regularity of Sound Change
- Phonological Change
- Morphological Change
- Syntactic Change
- Lexical Change
- Reconstructing "Dead" Languages
- Extinct and Endangered Languages
- The Genetic Classification of Languages
- Types of Languages
- Why Do Languages Change?
- 12. Writing: The ABCs of Language
- The History of Writing
- Modern Writing Systems
- Writing and Speech
- Glossary
- Index
