Contemporary linguistics : an introduction /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: O'Grady, William D. (William Delaney), 1952- (ed.), Archibald, John (ed.)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Boston : Bedford/St. Martin's, 2017.
Edition:7th ed.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Language : a preview
  • Phonetics : the sounds of language
  • Phonology : contrasts and patterns
  • Morphology : the analysis of word structure
  • Syntax : the analysis of sentence structure
  • Semantics : the analysis of meaning
  • The classification of languages
  • Historical linguistics : the study of language change
  • First language acquisition
  • Second language acquisition
  • Psycholinguistics : the study of language processing
  • Brain and language
  • Language in social contexts
  • Writing and language
  • Indigenous languages of North America
  • Sing languages
  • Animal communication
  • Computational linguistics.