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Acknowledgements | |
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Note to the Teacher | |
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The Structure of Human Language | |
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Introduction | |
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What Is Linguistics? | |
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Morphology: The Study of the Structure of Words | |
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Words: Some Background Concepts | |
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Complex Words and Morphemes | |
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Neologisms: How Are New Words Created? | |
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Inflectional versus Derivational Morphology | |
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Problematic Aspects of Morphological Analysis | |
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Special Topics | |
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Phonetics and Phonemic Transcription | |
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Some Background Concepts | |
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The Representation of Speech Sounds | |
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Phonology: The Study of Sound Structure | |
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What Is Phonology? | |
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The Internal Structure of Speech Sounds: Distinctive Feature Theory | |
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The External Organization of Speech Sounds | |
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Syntax: The Study of Sentence Structure | |
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Some Background Concepts | |
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An Informal Theory of Syntax | |
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A More Formal Account of Early Transformational Theory | |
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Special Topics | |
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Semantics: The Study of Linguistic Meaning | |
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Semantics as Part of a Grammar | |
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Theories of Meaning | |
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The Scope of a Semantic Theory | |
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Language Variation | |
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Language Styles and Language Dialects | |
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Some Properties of the Grammar of Informal Style in English | |
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Other Language Varieties | |
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Language Change | |
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Some Background Concepts | |
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The Reconstruction of Indo-European and the Nature of Language Change | |
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The Linguistic History of English | |
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Communication and Cognitive Science | |
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Introduction | |
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Pragmatics: The Study of Language Use and Communication | |
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Some Background Concepts | |
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The Message Model of Linguistic Communication | |
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The Inferential Model of Linguistic Communication | |
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Discourse and Conversation | |
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Psychology of Language: Speech Production and Comprehension | |
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Performance Models | |
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Speech Production | |
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Language Comprehension | |
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Language Acquisition in Children | |
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Some Background Concepts | |
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Is There a ‘‘Language Acquisition Device��? | |
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Is the Human Linguistic Capacity Unique? Children and Primates Compared | |
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Language and the Brain | |
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Is Language Localized in the Brain�and If So, Where? | |
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How Does the Brain Encode and Decode Speech and Language? | |
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Are the Components of Language Neuroanatomically Distinct? | |
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Appendix | |
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The Written Representation of Language | |
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Glossary | |
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Index | |