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| List of Symbols | |
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| Preface to the Tenth Edition | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction | |
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| What Is Language? | |
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| Introducing the Study of Language | |
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| What You Know When You Know a Language | |
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| What You Don't (Necessarily) Know When You Know a Language | |
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| Design Features of Language | |
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| Language Modality | |
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| Practice | |
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| Phonetics | |
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| What Is Phonetics? | |
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| Representing Speech Sounds | |
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| Articulation: English Consonants | |
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| Articulation: English Vowels | |
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| Beyond English: Speech Sounds of the World's Languages | |
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| Suprasegmental Features | |
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| Acoustic Phonetics | |
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| The Phonetics of Signed Languages | |
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| Practice | |
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| Phonology | |
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| What Is Phonology? | |
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| The Value of Sounds: Phonemes and Allophones | |
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| Phonological Rules | |
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| Phonotactic Constraints and Foreign Accents | |
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| Implicational Laws | |
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| How to Solve Phonology Problems | |
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| Practice | |
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| Morphology | |
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| What Is Morphology? | |
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| Words and Word Formation: The Nature of the Lexicon | |
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| Morphological Processes | |
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| Morphological Types of Languages | |
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| The Hierarchical Structure of Derived Words | |
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| Morphological Analysis | |
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| Practice | |
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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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| Lexical Categories | |
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| Phrase Structure | |
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| Tests for Structure and Constituency | |
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| Word Order Typology | |
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| Practice | |
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| Semantics | |
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| What Is Semantics? | |
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| An Overview of Semantics | |
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| Lexical Semantics: The Meanings of Words | |
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| Lexical Semantics: Word Relations | |
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| Compositional Semantics: The Meanings of Sentences | |
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| Compositional Semantics: Putting Words Together and Meaning Relationships | |
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| Practice | |
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| Pragmatics | |
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| What Is Pragmatics? | |
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| Language in Context | |
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| Rules of Conversation | |
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| Drawing Conclusions | |
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| Speech Acts | |
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| Presupposition | |
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| Practice | |
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| Language Acquisition | |
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| What Is Language Acquisition? | |
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| Theories of Language Acquisition | |
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| First-Language Acquisition: The Acquisition of Speech Sounds and Phonology | |
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| First-Language Acquisition: The Acquisition of Morphology, Syntax, and Word Meaning | |
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| How Adults Talk to Young Children | |
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| Bilingual Language Acquisition | |
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| Practice | |
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| Language Storage and Processing | |
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| How Do We Store and Process Language? | |
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| Language and the Brain | |
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| Aphasia | |
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| Speech Production | |
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| Speech Perception | |
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| Lexical Processing | |
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| Sentence Processing | |
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| Experimental Methods in Psycholinguistics | |
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| Practice | |
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| Language Variation | |
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| What Is Language Variation? | |
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| Language Varieties | |
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| Variation at Different Levels of Linguistic Structure | |
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| Factors Influencing Variation: Regional and Geographic Factors | |
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| Factors Influencing Variation: Social Factors | |
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| Practice | |
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| Language Contact | |
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| What Is Language Contact? | |
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| Language Contact | |
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| Borrowings into English | |
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| Pidgin Languages | |
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| Creole Languages | |
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| Societal Multilingualism | |
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| Language Endangerment and Language Death | |
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| Case Studies in Language Contact | |
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| Practice | |
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| Language Change | |
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| What Is Language Change? | |
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| Introducing Language Change | |
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| Language Relatedness | |
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| Sound Change | |
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| Morphological Change | |
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| Syntactic Change | |
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| Semantic Change | |
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| Reconstruction: Internal Reconstruction vs. Comparative Reconstruction | |
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| Practice | |
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| Language and Culture | |
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| What Is the Study of "Language and Culture"? | |
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| Language and Identity | |
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| Language and Power | |
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| Language and Thought | |
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| Writing Systems | |
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| Practice | |
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| Animal Communication | |
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| How Do Animals Communicate? | |
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| Communication and Language | |
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| Animal Communication in the Wild | |
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| Can Animals Be Taught Language? | |
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| Practice | |
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| Language and Computers | |
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| What Is Computational Linguistics? | |
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| Speech Synthesis | |
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| Automatic Speech Recognition | |
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| Communicating with Computers | |
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| Machine Translation | |
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| Corpus Linguistics | |
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| Practice | |
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| Practical Applications | |
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| What Can You Do with Linguistics? | |
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| Language Education | |
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| Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology | |
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| Language and Law | |
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| Language in Advertising | |
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| Codes and Code-Breaking | |
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| Being a Linguist | |
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| Practice | |
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| Answers to Example Exercises | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Selected Bibliography | |
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| Language Index | |
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| Subject Index | |