Language files : materials for an introduction to language and linguistics / editors, Anouschka Bergmann, Kathleen Currie Hall, Sharon Miriam Ross.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bergmann, Anouschka.

Hall, Kathleen Currie.

Ross, Sharon Miriam.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Linguistics.

Physical Description:

xx, 700 pages : illustrations, maps ; 28 cm

Edition:

Tenth edition.

Place of Publication:

Columbus : Ohio State University Press, [2007]

Contents:

File 1.0 What Is Language? 2

File 1.1 Introducing the Study of Language 3

File 1.2 What You Know When You Know a Language 6

File 1.3 What You Don't (Necessarily) Know When You Know a Language 12

File 1.4 Design Features of Language 17

File 1.5 Language Modality 24

File 1.6 Practice 30

Chapter 2 Phonetics 37

File 2.0 What Is Phonetics? 38

File 2.1 Representing Speech Sounds 40

File 2.2 Articulation: English Consonants 45

File 2.3 Articulation: English Vowels 54

File 2.4 Beyond English: Speech Sounds of the World's Languages 59

File 2.5 Suprasegmental Features 64

File 2.6 Acoustic Phonetics 69

File 2.7 The Phonetics of Signed Languages 79

File 2.8 Practice 87

Chapter 3 Phonology 99

File 3.0 What Is Phonology? 100

File 3.1 The Value of Sounds: Phonemes and Allophones 101

File 3.2 Phonological Rules 109

File 3.3 Phonotactic Constraints and Foreign Accents 117

File 3.4 Implicational Laws 122

File 3.5 How to Solve Phonology Problems 127

File 3.6 Practice 134

Chapter 4 Morphology 147

File 4.0 What Is Morphology? 148

File 4.1 Words and Word Formation: The Nature of the Lexicon 149

File 4.2 Morphological Processes 155

File 4.3 Morphological Types of Languages 163

File 4.4 The Hierarchical Structure of Derived Words 168

File 4.5 Morphological Analysis 172

File 4.6 Practice 176

Chapter 5 Syntax 193

File 5.0 What Is Syntax? 194

File 5.1 Basic Ideas of Syntax 195

File 5.2 How Sentences Express Ideas 199

File 5.3 Lexical Categories 204

File 5.4 Phrase Structure 208

File 5.5 Tests for Structure and Constituency 216

File 5.6 Word Order Typology 221

File 5.7 Practice 223

Chapter 6 Semantics 231

File 6.0 What Is Semantics? 232

File 6.1 An Overview of Semantics 233

File 6.2 Lexical Semantics: The Meanings of Words 235

File 6.3 Lexical Semantics: Word Relations 242

File 6.4 Compositional Semantics: The Meanings of Sentences 248

File 6.5 Compositional Semantics: Putting Words Together and Meaning Relationships 252

File 6.6 Practice 259

Chapter 7 Pragmatics 267

File 7.0 What Is Pragmatics? 268

File 7.1 Language in Context 269

File 7.2 Rules of Conversation 273

File 7.3 Drawing Conclusions 279

File 7.4 Speech Acts 284

File 7.5 Presupposition 292

File 7.6 Practice 297

Chapter 8 Language Acquisition 309

File 8.0 What Is Language Acquisition? 310

File 8.1 Theories of Language Acquisition 311

File 8.2 First-Language Acquisition: The Acquisition of Speech Sounds and Phonology 319

File 8.3 First-Language Acquisition: The Acquisition of Morphology, Syntax, and Word Meaning 326

File 8.4 How Adults Talk to Young Children 333

File 8.5 Bilingual Language Acquisition 339

File 8.6 Practice 343

Chapter 9 Language Storage and Processing 351

File 9.0 How Do We Store and Process Language? 352

File 9.1 Language and the Brain 354

File 9.2 Aphasia 360

File 9.3 Speech Production 365

File 9.4 Speech Perception 374

File 9.5 Lexical Processing 379

File 9.6 Sentence Processing 385

File 9.7 Experimental Methods in Psycholinguistics 390

File 9.8 Practice 393

Chapter 10 Language Variation 405

File 10.0 What Is Language Variation? 406

File 10.1 Language Varieties 407

File 10.2 Variation at Different Levels of Linguistic Structure 414

File 10.3 Factors Influencing Variation: Regional and Geographic Factors 418

File 10.4 Factors Influencing Variation: Social Factors 427

File 10.5 Practice 434

Chapter 11 Language Contact 443

File 11.0 What Is Language Contact? 444

File 11.1 Language Contact 446

File 11.2 Borrowings into English 451

File 11.3 Pidgin Languages 454

File 11.4 Creole Languages 460

File 11.5 Societal Multilingualism 463

File 11.6 Language Endangerment and Language Death 465

File 11.7 Case Studies in Language Contact 469

File 11.8 Practice 473

Chapter 12 Language Change 481

File 12.0 What Is Language Change? 482

File 12.1 Introducing Language Change 483

File 12.2 Language Relatedness 486

File 12.3 Sound Change 492

File 12.4 Morphological Change 497

File 12.5 Syntactic Change 502

File 12.6 Semantic Change 505

File 12.7 Reconstruction: Internal Reconstruction vs. Comparative Reconstruction 508

File 12.8 Practice 516

Chapter 13 Language and Culture 525

File 13.0 What Is the Study of "Language and Culture"? 526

File 13.1 Language and Identity 527

File 13.2 Language and Power 533

File 13.3 Language and Thought 538

File 13.4 Writing Systems 545

File 13.5 Practice 559

Chapter 14 Animal Communication 565

File 14.0 How Do Animals Communicate? 566

File 14.1 Communication and Language 567

File 14.2 Animal Communication in the Wild 571

File 14.3 Can Animals Be Taught Language? 576

File 14.4 Practice 581

Chapter 15 Language and Computers 585

File 15.0 What Is Computational Linguistics? 586

File 15.1 Speech Synthesis 587

File 15.2 Automatic Speech Recognition 592

File 15.3 Communicating with Computers 597

File 15.4 Machine Translation 603

File 15.5 Corpus Linguistics 607

File 15.6 Practice 610

Chapter 16 Practical Applications 615

File 16.0 What Can You Do with Linguistics? 616

File 16.1 Language Education 617

File 16.2 Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology 620

File 16.3 Language and Law 622

File 16.4 Language in Advertising 625

File 16.5 Codes and Code-Breaking 631

File 16.6 Being a Linguist 637

File 16.7 Practice 639

Appendix Answers to Example Exercises 645

Language Index 685.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 675-683) and indexes.

ISBN:

9780814251638

0814251633

OCLC:

81944316