| Title : | Linguistics : an introduction |
| Material Type: | printed text |
| Authors: | Andrew Radford, Author ; Martin Atkinson, Author ; David Britain, Author ; Clahsen, Author ; Andrew Spencer, Author |
| Publisher: | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press |
| Publication Date: | 2002 |
| Pagination: | xvi, 438 p. |
| Size: | 24 cm |
| ISBN (or other code): | 978-0-521-47854-0 |
| General note: | Includes bibliographical references (p.424-428)
Includes index (p.429-438) |
| Languages : | English (eng) Original Language : English (eng) |
| Descriptors: | Linguistics
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| Class number: | 410 |
| Abstract: | This textbook is a self-contained introduction to linguistics for beginning students. It offers a unified approach to language from several perspectives. A language is a complex structure represented in the minds of its speakers, and this book introduces the tools necessary for understanding this structure. In addition, it focuses on how small children acquire their native language; the psychological processes which are involved in mature speakers producing and understanding language; linguistic difficulties that arise as a consequence of brain damage or genetic disorders and additional issues that arise when we consider individual speakers as part of a social community. |
| Contents note: | Sounds and suprasegmentals; Sound variation; Sound change; Phonemes, syllables and phonological processes; Child phonology; Processing sounds; Words; 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: Basic terminology; Sentence structure; Empty categories; Movement; Syntactic variation; Sentence meanings and logical form; Children's sentences; Sentence processing; Syntactic disorders; |
| Record link: | https://library.seeu.edu.mk/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=5578 |
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