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Language Files 9 - Table of Contents

Preface to the Ninth Edition
Acknowledgments

1. Introduction

File 1.1 Why Study Language?
File 1.2 Course Objectives
File 1.3 "Good" Language?
File 1.4 Arbitrariness in Language

2. Animal Communication

File 2.1 Defining "Language" ?
File 2.2 Design Features of Language
File 2.3 The Birds and the Bees
File 2.4 Primate Studies

3. Phonetics

File 3.1 What is Phonetics?
File 3.2 Representing Speech Sounds
File 3.3 English Consonants
File 3.4 English Vowels
File 3.5 Sagittal Section Exercises
File 3.6 English Transcription Exercises
File 3.7 Non-English Speech Sounds
File 3.8 Suprasegmental Features
File 3.9 Acoustic Phonetics Overview
File 3.10 Acoustic Characteristics of Sound
File 3.11 Experimental Methods in Phonetics

4. Phonology

File 4.1 What is Phonology?
File 4.2 The Value of Sounds: Phonemes
File 4.3 Phonological Rules
File 4.4 How to Solve Phonology Exercises
File 4.5 Phonological Analysis Exercises
File 4.6 Sound Substitution and Phonotactic Constraints
File 4.7 Implicational Laws

5. Morphology

File 5.1 Words and Word Formation
File 5.2 Exercises in Identifying Morphemes
File 5.3 The Hierarchical Structure of Derived Words
File 5.4 Morphological Processes
File 5.5 Morphological Analysis
File 5.6 Morphology Exercises

6. Syntax

File 6.1 What is Syntax?
File 6.2 Basic Ideas of Syntax
File 6.3 How Sentences Express Ideas
File 6.4 Phrase Structure
File 6.5 Tests for Structure
File 6.6 Word Order Typology

7. Semantics

File 7.1 The Goal of Semantics
File 7.2 Theories of Meaning
File 7.3 Lexical Semantics
File 7.4 Compositional Semantics

8. Pragmatics

File 8.1 What is Pragmatics?
File 8.2 Speech Acts
File 8.3 Drawing Conclusions: Entailment and Implicature
File 8.4 Rules of Conversation
File 8.5 Language in Advertising
File 8.6 Discourse Analysis

9. Psycholinguistics

File 9.1 What is Psycholinguistics?
File 9.2 Language and the Brain
File 9.3 Theories of Language Acquisition
File 9.4 First Language Acquisition: Acquisition of Speech Sounds and Phonology
File 9.5 First Language Acquisition: Acquisition of Morphology, Syntax and Word Meaning
File 9.6 Milestones in Motor and Language Development
File 9.7 How Adults Talk to Young Children
File 9.8 Adult Language Processing
File 9.9 Errors in Speech Production and Perception

10. Language Variation

File 10.1 Introduction to Language Variation
File 10.2 Variation at Different Levels of Linguistic Structure
File 10.3 Language and Socioeconomic Status
File 10.4 Language and Region
File 10.5 Language and Ethnicity: The Case of African-American English
File 10.6 An Official Language for the United States?
File 10.7 Language and Gender
File 10.8 Variation in Speech Style
File 10.9 Case Studies
File 10.10 Language Variation Exercises

11. Language Contact

File 11.1 Language Contact
File 11.2 Pidgin Languages
File 11.3 Creole Languages
File 11.4 Borrowings into English

12. Language Change

File 12.1 Language Change
File 12.2 The Family Tree and Wave Models
File 12.3 Sound Change
File 12.4 Comparative Method
File 12.5 Reconstruction Exercises
File 12.6 Morphological Change
File 12.7 Syntactic Change
File 12.8 Semantic Change
File 12.9 Milestones in the Internal and External History of English

13. Visual Languages

File 13.1 Visual Languages
File 13.2 True Language?
File 13.3 American Sign Language

14. Language and Computers

File 14.1 Introduction to Language and Computers
File 14.2 Corpus Linguistics
File 14.3 Machine Translation
File 14.4 Speech Synthesis
File 14.5 Communicating with Computers

15. Language in a Wider Context

File 15.1 Introduction to Language in a Wider Context
File 15.2 Writing Systems
File 15.3 The Whorf Hypothesis
File 15.4 Color Terms

Appendix A Answers to Practice Exercises
Appendix B IPA Chart
Glossary
Language Index
Index