Concise Introduction to Linguistics, A
by Rowe, Bruce M.; Levine, Diane P.Edition: 2nd
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2009-01-01
Publisher(s): Allyn & Bacon
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Summary
This student-friendly and well-balanced overview of the field of introductory linguistics pays special attention to linguistic anthropology and reveals the main contributions of linguistics to the study of human communication and how issues of culture are relevant. Its workbook format contains well-constructed exercises in every chapter that allow students to practice key concepts.
Table of Contents
| The Nature of Communication | |
| The Nature of Communication Nonhuman and Human Communication Compared Chimpanzees and Gorillas in Controlled Environments Skepticism over | |
| Ape Language Studies | |
| Summary | |
| Suggested Reading | |
| Suggested Websites | |
| Review of Terms and Concepts | |
| End of Chapter Questions | |
| The Phonological Component: Phonetics Articulatory Phonetics Consonants and Vowels Syllables and Syllabic Consonants Suprasegmentals | |
| Connected Speech | |
| Summary | |
| Suggested Reading | |
| Suggested Websites | |
| Review of Terms and Concepts | |
| End of Chapter Exercises | |
| The Phonological Component: Phonology The Phoneme and the Concept of Significant Differences in Sounds | |
| Distinctive Feature Analysis Phonological Processes | |
| The Continuous and Complex Nature of Speech | |
| Revised Summary Suggested Reading | |
| Suggested Websites | |
| Review of Terms and Concepts | |
| End of Chapter Exercises | |
| The Morphological Component | |
| The Morpheme Morphological Typology | |
| How New Words Are Formed Lexical Categories | |
| Summary | |
| Suggested Reading | |
| Suggested Websites | |
| Review of Terms and Concepts | |
| End of Chapter Exercises | |
| Syntax Syntactic Construction Grammaticality Judgments and Ambiguity | |
| The Constituent Structure of Sentences Phrase Structure | |
| Rules Transformational Rules Optional and Obligatory Transformations | |
| Summary | |
| Suggested Reading | |
| Suggested Websites | |
| Review of Terms and Concepts | |
| Semantics and Pragmatics The Meaning of Words: Lexical Semantics | |
| The -Nyms Other Kinds of Meaning: Structural Semantics Pragmatics | |
| Summary | |
| Suggested Reading | |
| Suggested Websites | |
| Review of Terms and Concepts | |
| Fieldwork Project | |
| Semantics and Linguistic Anthropology Regional Dialects | |
| African American English | |
| Hispanic English | |
| Contact Languages: Pidgins and Creoles Situational Dialects or Registers Gender and Language | |
| Linguistic Anthropology Language and Nationalism | |
| Summary | |
| Suggested Read | |
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