Linguistics An Introduction

Name: Linguistics An Introduction
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ISBN: 9780521614788

ISBN-10: 0521614783

ISBN-13: 9780521614788

Edition: 2nd 2009 (Revised)

Authors: Andrew Radford, Martin Atkinson, David Britain, Harald Clahsen, Andrew Spencer

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Written by a team based at one of the world's leading centres for linguistic teaching and research, the second edition of this highly successful textbook offers a unified approach to language, viewed from a range of perspectives essential for students' understanding of the subject. Using clear explanations throughout, the book is divided into three main sections: sounds, words, and sentences. In each, the foundational concepts are introduced, along with their application to the fields of child language acquisition, psycholinguistics, language disorders, and sociolinguistics, giving the book a unique yet simple structure that helps students to engage with the subject more easily than other…

Book details

List price: $64.99
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 2/12/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 447
Size: 6.81" wide x 9.72" long x 0.87" tall
Weight: 2.156
Language: English

Martin Atkinson is Professor in the Department of Language and Linguistics at the University of Essex.

David Britain is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Language and Linguistics at the University of Essex.

Harald Clahsen is Professor in the Department of Language and Linguistics at the University of Essex.



Introduction



Sounds



Introduction



Sounds and suprasegmentals



Sound variation



Sound change



Phonemes, syllables and phonological processes



Child phonology



Processing sounds



Words



Introduction



Word classes



Building words



Morphology across languages



Word meaning



Children and words



Lexical processing and the mental lexicon



Lexical disorders



Lexical variation and change



Sentences



Introduction



Basic terminology



Sentence structure



Empty categories



Movement



Syntactic variation



Sentence meanings and Logical Form



Children's sentences



Sentence processing



Syntactic disorders



Using sentences