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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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| Special Topics | |
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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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| Special Topic | |
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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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| Special Topics | |
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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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| Special Topics | |
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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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| Special Topics | |
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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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| Special Topics | |
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| Appendix | |
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| The Written Representation of Language | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Index | |