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Language structure and language use, essays / by Charles A. Ferguson. Selected and introduced by Anwar S. Dil.
LIBRA P27 .F4
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ferguson, Charles A. (Charles Albert), 1921-1998.
- Series:
- Language science and national development
- Language science and national development.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Language and languages.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 327 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 1971.
- Contents:
- Diglossia.
- Linguistic diversity in South Asia.
- The language factor in national development.
- Background to second language problems.
- Problems of teaching languages with diglossia.
- Assumptions about nasals: a sample study in phonological universals.
- Linguistic theory and language learning.
- Baby talk in six languages.
- Applied linguistics.
- On sociolinguistically oriented language surveys.
- National sociolinguistic profile formulas.
- Sentence deviance in linguistics and language teaching.
- St. Stefan of Perm and applied linguistics.
- Language development.
- Contrastive analysis and language development.
- Contrasting patterns of literacy acquisition in a multilingual nation.
- Absence of copula and the notion of simplicity: a study of normal speech, baby talk, foreigner talk, and pidgins.
- A role of Arabic in Ethiopia: a sociolinguistic perspective.
- Bibliography of Charles A. Ferguson's works, compiled by A. S. Dil (p. [313]-327).
- Notes:
- "The eighteen articles selected for this volume cover the period from 1959 to 1970.".
- Includes bibliographies.
- ISBN:
- 0804707804
- OCLC:
- 160088
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