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This popular introductory linguistics text is unique for its integration of themes. Rather than treat morphology, phonetics, phonology, syntax, and semantics as completely separate fields, the book shows how they interact. It provides a sound introduction to linguistic methodology while encouraging students to consider why people are intrinsically interested in language--the ultimate puzzle of the human mind.

The text first treats such structural and interpretive parts of language as morphology, phonology, syntax, and semantics, then takes a cognitive perspective and covers such topics as pragmatics, psychology of language, language acquisition, and language and the brain. For this sixth edition, all chapters have been revised. New material includes updated examples, new special topics sections, and new discussions of the minimalist program, semantic minimalism, human genetic relationships and historical relationships among languages, Gricean theories, experimental pragmatics, and language acquisition.

The organization of the book gives instructors flexibility in designing their courses. Chapters have numerous subsections with core material presented first and additional material following as special topics. The accompanying workbook supplements the text with exercises drawn from a variety of languages. The goal is to teach basic conceptual foundations of linguistics and the methods of argumentation, justification, and hypothesis testing within the field. By presenting the most fundamental linguistics concepts in detail, the text allows students to get a feeling for how real work in different areas of linguistics is done.

The hardcover edition does not include a dust jacket.

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• Acknowledgements(p. ix)
• Note to the Teacher(p. xi)
• Part I The Structure of Human Language
• Introduction(p. 5)
• Chapter 1 What Is Linguistics?(p. 13)
• Chapter 2 Morphology: The Study of the Structure of Words(p. 67)
• 2.1 Words: Some Background Concepts(p. 13)
• 2.2 Complex Words and Morphemes(p. 18)
• 2.3 Neologisms: How Are New Words Created?(p. 25)
• 2.4 Inflectional versus Derivational Morphology(p. 45)
• 2.5 Problematic Aspects of Morphological Analysis(p. 48)
• 2.6 Special Topics(p. 51)
• Chapter 3 Phonetics and Phonemic Transcription(p. 67)
• 3.1 Some Background Concepts(p. 68)
• 3.2 The Representation of Speech Sounds(p. 73)
• 3.3 Special Topics(p. 99)
• Chapter 4 Phonology: The Study of Sound Structure(p. 109)
• 4.1 What Is Phonology?(p. 109)
• 4.2 The Internal Structure of Speech Sounds: Distinctive Feature Theory(p. 110)
• 4.3 The External Organization of Speech Sounds(p. 126)
• 4.4 Special Topic(p. 140)
• Chapter 5 Syntax: The Study of Sentence Structure(p. 149)
• 5.1 Some Background Concepts(p. 149)
• 5.2 An Informal Theory of Syntax(p. 154)
• 5.3 A More Formal Account of Early Transformational Theory(p. 194)
• 5.4 Special Topics(p. 201)
• Chapter 6 Semantics: The Study of Linguistic Meaning(p. 225)
• 6.1 Semantics as Part of a Grammar(p. 225)
• 6.2 Theories of Meaning(p. 226)
• 6.3 The Scope of a Semantic Theory(p. 234)
• 6.4 Special Topics(p. 246)
• Chapter 7 Language Variation(p. 273)
• 7.1 Language Styles and Language Dialects(p. 273)
• 7.2 Some Properties of the Grammar of Informal Style in English(p. 285)
• 7.3 Other Language Varieties(p. 293)
• Chapter 8 Language Change(p. 311)
• 8.1 Some Background Concepts(p. 311)
• 8.2 The Reconstruction of Indo-European and the Nature of Language Change(p. 315)
• 8.3 The Linguistic History of English(p. 332)
• 8.4 Special Topics(p. 343)
• Part II Communication and Cognitive Science
• Introduction(p. 359)
• Chapter 9 Pragmatics: The Study of Language Use and Communication(p. 363)
• 9.1 Some Background Concepts(p. 363)
• 9.2 The Message Model of Linguistic Communication(p. 365)
• 9.3 The Inferential Model of Linguistic Communication(p. 371)
• 9.4 Discourse and Conversation(p. 388)
• 9.5 Special Topics(p. 393)
• Chapter 10 Psychology of Language: Speech Production and Comprehension(p. 419)
• 10.1 Performance Models(p. 419)
• 10.2 Speech Production(p. 419)
• 10.3 Language Comprehension(p. 427)
• 10.4 Special Topics(p. 458)
• Chapter 11 Language Acquisition in Children(p. 481)
• 11.1 Some Background Concepts(p. 481)
• 11.2 Is There a ''Language Acquisition DeviceÆÆ?(p. 494)
• 11.3 Is the Human Linguistic Capacity Unique? Children and Primates Compared(p. 510)
• 11.4 Special Topic(p. 519)
• Chapter 12 Language and the Brain(p. 531)
• 12.1 Is Language Localized in the Brainùand If So, Where?(p. 532)
• 12.2 How Does the Brain Encode and Decode Speech and Language?(p. 539)
• 12.3 Are the Components of Language Neuroanatomically Distinct?(p. 547)
• 12.4 Special Topics(p. 551)
• Appendix(p. 569)
• The Written Representation of Language
• Glossary(p. 579)
• Index(p. 601)

Notas de autor provistas por Syndetics

The late Adrian Akmajian was Professor of Linguistics at the University of Arizona. Richard A. Demers is Professor Emeritus of the Department of Linguistics at the University of Arizona. Ann K. Farmer is an Information Engineer at Google. The late Robert M. Harnish was Professor Emeritus of Philosophy and Linguistics at the University of Arizona.