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| Preface to the Ninth Edition | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Symbols | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Why Study Language? | |
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| Course Objectives | |
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| "Good" Language? | |
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| Arbitrariness in Language | |
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| Animal Communication | |
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| Defining "Language"? | |
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| Design Features of Language | |
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| The Birds and the Bees | |
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| Primate Studies | |
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| Phonetics | |
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| What Is Phonetics? | |
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| Representing Speech Sounds | |
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| English Consonants | |
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| English Vowels | |
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| Sagittal Section Exercises | |
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| English Transcription Exercises | |
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| Non-English Speech Sounds | |
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| Suprasegmental Features | |
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| Acoustic Phonetics Overview | |
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| Acoustic Characteristics of Sound | |
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| Experimental Methods in Phonetics | |
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| Phonology | |
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| What Is Phonology? | |
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| The Value of Sounds: Phonemes | |
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| Phonological Rules | |
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| How to Solve Phonology Exercises | |
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| Phonological Analysis Exercises | |
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| Sound Substitution and Phonotactic Constraints | |
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| Implicational Laws | |
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| Morphology | |
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| Morphology: Words and Word Formation | |
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| Exercises in Identifying Morphemes | |
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| The Hierarchical Structure of Derived Words | |
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| Morphological Processes | |
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| Morphological Analysis | |
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| Morphology Exercises | |
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| Syntax | |
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| What Is Syntax? | |
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| Basic Ideas of Syntax | |
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| How Sentences Express Ideas | |
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| Phrase Structure | |
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| Tests for Structure | |
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| Word Order Typology | |
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| Semantics | |
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| The Goal of Semantics | |
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| Theories of Meaning | |
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| Lexical Semantics | |
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| Compositional Semantics | |
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| Color Terms | |
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| Pragmatics | |
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| What Is Pragmatics? | |
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| Speech Acts | |
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| Drawing Conclusions: Entailment and Implicature | |
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| Rules of Conversation | |
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| Language in Advertising | |
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| Discourse Analysis | |
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| Psycholinguistics | |
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| What Is Psycholinguistics? | |
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| Language and the Brain | |
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| Theories of Language Acquisition | |
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| First Language Acquisition: Acquisition of Speech Sounds and Phonology | |
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| First Language Acquisition: Acquisition of Morphology, Syntax, and Word Meaning | |
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| Milestones in Motor and Language Development | |
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| How Adults Talk to Young Children | |
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| Adult Language Processing | |
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| Errors in Speech Production and Perception | |
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| Language Variation | |
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| Introduction to Language Variation | |
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| Variation at Different Levels of Linguistic Structure | |
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| Language and Socioeconomic Status | |
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| Language and Region | |
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| Language and Ethnicity: The Case of African-American English | |
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| An Official Language for the United States? | |
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| Language and Gender | |
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| Variation in Speech Style | |
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| Case Studies | |
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| Language Variation Exercises | |
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| Language Contact | |
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| Language Contact | |
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| Pidgin Languages | |
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| Creole Languages | |
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| Borrowings into English | |
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| Case Studies | |
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| Language Change | |
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| Language Change | |
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| The Family Tree and Wave Models | |
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| Sound Change | |
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| The Comparative Method | |
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| Reconstruction Exercises | |
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| Morphological Change | |
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| Syntactic Change | |
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| Semantic Change | |
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| Milestones in the Internal and External History of English | |
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| Visual Languages | |
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| Visual Languages | |
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| True Language? | |
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| American Sign Language | |
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| Language and Computers | |
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| Introduction to Language and Computers | |
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| Corpus Linguistics | |
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| Machine Translation | |
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| Speech Synthesis | |
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| Communicating with Computers | |
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| Language in a Wider Context | |
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| Introduction to Language in a Wider Context | |
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| Writing Systems | |
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| The Whorf Hypothesis | |
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| Color Terms | |
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| Answers to Example Exercises | |
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| The International Phonetic Alphabet | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Language Index | |
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| Index | |