Linguistics : an introduction to language and communication

• Main Author: Akmajian, Adrian, 1944- (Author)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : MIT Press, c2010
• Edition: 6th ed.
• Subjects: lingvistika; jazyky; linguistics; languages; učebnice vysokých škol; textbooks (higher)
• ISBN: 9780262513708
• Physical Description: xiv, 630 s. : il. ; 23 cm

Table of Contents:

• Acknowledgments
• Note to the teacher
• Part I. The structure of human language: Introduction
• 1. What is linguistics?
• 2. Morphology: the study of the structure of words
• 3. Phonetics and phonemic transcription
• 4. Phonology: the study of sound structure
• 5. Syntax: the study of sentence structure
• 6. Semantics: the study of linguistic meaning
• 7. Language variation
• 8. Language change
• Part II: Communication and cognitive science
• 9. Pragmatics: the study of language use and communication
• 10. Psychology of language: speech production and comprehension
• 11. Language acquisition in children
• 12. Language and the brain
• Appendix: the written representation of language
• Glossary
• Index.