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1 online resource (632 pages) |
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Intro; An introduction to language; Prelims; Title page; Imprint page; Brief contents; Contents; Guide to the text; Guide to the online resources; Preface; Acknowledgements; About the authors; Part 1: The nature of human language; Chapter 1: What is language?; Linguistic knowledge; Knowledge of the sound system; Knowledge of words; The creativity of linguistic knowledge; Knowledge of sentences and non-sentences; Linguistic knowledge and performance; What is grammar?; Descriptive grammars; Prescriptive grammars; Teaching grammars; Universal Grammar; The development of grammar |
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Sign languages: evidence for language universalsWhat is not (human) language; The birds and the bees; Can animals learn human language?; Summary; Further reading; Online study resources; Exercises; Endnotes; Chapter 2: Brain and language; The human brain; The localisation of language in the brain; Aphasia and localisation; Further experimental evidence of brain organisation; Language and brain development; Left-hemisphere lateralisation and brain plasticity in young children; The critical period; Modularity: dissociations of language and cognition; Linguistic savants |
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Specific language impairmentGenetic basis of language; The evolution of language; The development of language in the species; Summary; Further reading; Online study resources; Exercises; Endnotes; Part 2: Grammatical aspects of language; Chapter 3: Morphology: the words of language; Content words and function words; Morphemes: the minimal units of meaning; The discreteness of morphemes; Bound and free morphemes; Bound roots; Rules of word formation; Derivational morphology; Inflectional morphology; The hierarchical structure of words; Rule productivity; Other morphological processes |
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Meaning of compoundsUniversality of compounding; Sign language morphology; Morphological analysis: identifying morphemes; Summary; Further reading; Online study resources; Exercises; Endnotes; Chapter 4: Syntax: the sentence patterns of language; Our knowledge of syntax; Grammaticality; Sentence structure; Syntactic categories; Selection; Phrase structure; Phrase structure rules; Structural ambiguities; The infinity of language; Transformational analysis; Structure dependence; UG principles and parameters; Sign-language syntax; Summary; Further reading; Online study resources; Exercises |
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EndnotesChapter 5: Semantics and pragmatics: the meanings of language; What speakers know about sentence meaning; Truth; Entailment and related notions; Ambiguity; Compositional semantics; Semantic rules; When compositionality goes awry; Lexical semantics (word meanings); Theories of word meaning; Lexical relations; Semantic features; Argument structure; Pragmatics; Pronouns and other deictic words; Language and thought; Summary; Further reading; Online study resources; Exercises; Endnotes; Chapter 6: Phonetics: the sounds of language; Speech sounds; Identity of speech sounds |
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The phonetic alphabet |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Language and languages -- Textbooks
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Linguistics -- Textbooks
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Language and languages.
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Linguistics.
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Textbooks.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Rodman, Robert
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Hyams, Nina M
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| ISBN |
9780170282543 |
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0170282546 |
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