Akmajian, Adrian. <br/><br/>
Linguistics  an introduction to language and communication 
Adrian Akmajian, Richard A. Demers, Ann K. Farmer, Robert M. Harnish 
 - Sixth edition. 
 - Cambridge, Mass.  MIT Press  c2010. 
 - xiv, 630 p.  ill.  24 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>Acknowledgments -- Note to the teacher -- Part I. The structure of human language: Introduction -- 1. What is linguistics? -- 2. Morphology: the study of the structure of words -- 3. Phonetics and phonemic transcription -- 4. Phonology: the study of sound structure -- 5. Syntax: the study of sentence structure -- 6. Semantics: the study of linguistic meaning -- 7. Language variation -- 8. Language change -- Part II: Communication and cognitive science -- 9. Pragmatics: the study of language use and communication -- 10. Psychology of language: speech production and comprehension -- 11. Language acquisition in children -- 12. Language and the brain -- Appendix: the written representation of language -- Glossary -- Index. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780262013758 (hc : alk. paper) 9780262513708 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0262013754 (hc : alk. paper) 0262513706 (pbk. : alk. paper) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2009028422 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Linguistics