| Description |
xvi, 438 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: List of figures -- List of tables -- List of maps -- List of appendices -- A note for course organisers and class teachers on the use of this book -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part I. Sounds: 1. Introduction -- 2. Sounds and suprasegmentals -- 3. Sound variation -- 4. Sound change -- 5. Phonemes, syllables and phonological processes -- 6. Child phonology -- 7. Processing sounds -- Part II. Words: 8. Introduction -- 9. Word classes -- 10. Building words -- 11. Morphology across languages -- 12. Word meaning -- 13. Children and words -- 14. Lexical processing and the mental lexicon -- 15. Lexical disorders -- 16. Lexical variation and change -- Part III. Sentences: 17. Introduction -- 18. Basic terminology -- 19. Sentence structure -- 20. Empty categories -- 21. Movement -- 22. Syntactic variation -- 23. Logical form -- 24. Children's sentences -- 25. Sentence processing -- 26. Syntactic disorders -- Bibliography |
| Summary |
This book provides the tools necessary for understanding the structure of language. It explains the basic concepts and recent theoretical ideas in the major areas of linguistics (phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics), as well as the applications of these to the study of child language acquisition, psycholinguistics, language disorders and sociolinguistics. The book is divided into three parts: sounds, words and sentences. In each of these parts, the foundation concepts are introduced along with their applications in the above fields |
| Analysis |
Linguistics |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
Linguistics.
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| Author |
Radford, Andrew.
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| LC no. |
98044358 |
| ISBN |
052147261X (hc.) |
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0521478545 (paperback) |
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