Linguistics
Subtitle: an introduction to language and communication
By: Adrian Akmajian ... [et al.].
Edition: 6th ed.
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 630
ISBN-13: 9780262013758; 9780262513708
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Acknowledgments; title: Note to the teacher; title: Part I. The structure of human language: Introduction; title: 1. What is linguistics?; title: 2. Morphology: the study of the structure of words; title: 3. Phonetics and phonemic transcription; title: 4. Phonology: the study of sound structure; title: 5. Syntax: the study of sentence structure; title: 6. Semantics: the study of linguistic meaning; title: 7. Language variation; title: 8. Language change; title: Part II: Communication and cognitive science; title: 9. Pragmatics: the study of language use and communication; title: 10. Psychology of language: speech production and comprehension; title: 11. Language acquisition in children; title: 12. Language and the brain; title: Appendix: the written representation of language; title: Glossary; title: Index.