An Introduction to Language and Linguistics - Cambridge University Press

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Contents

Introduction, Ralph W. Fasold and Jeff Connor-Linton

1. The sounds of language, Elizabeth Zsiga

2. Words and their parts, Donna Lardiere

3. The structure of sentences, David Lightfoot and Ralph Fasold

4. Meaning, Paul Portner

5. Discourse, Deborah Schiffrin

6. Child language acquisition, Kendall A. King

7. Language and the brain, Michael Ullman

8. Language change, Shaligram Shukla and Jeff Connor-Linton

9. Dialect variation, Natalie Schilling-Estes

10. Language and culture, Deborah Tannen

11. The politics of language, Ralph W. Fasold

12. Writing, Jeff Connor-Linton

13. Second language acquisition, Alison Mackey

14. Computational linguistics, Inderjeet Mani