Linguistics
Linguistics
Martin Atkinson, University of Essex
David Britain, University of Essex
Harald Clahsen, University of Essex
Andrew Spencer, University of Essex
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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 textbooks on the market. This edition includes a completely new section on sentence use, including an introduction and discussion of core areas of pragmatics and conversational analysis; coverage of sociolinguistic topics, introducing communities of practice; a wealth of new exercise material and updated further reading.
- A uniquely structured textbook, making the various aspects of linguistics clearer to students
- Updated throughout to reflect recent developments. Features a whole new section on sentence use, and introductions to areas such as pragmatics, conversation analysis and optimality theory
- Contains a large number of exercises with hints and model answers provided where appropriate
Product details
No date availablePaperback
9780521614788
447 pages
247 × 173 × 22 mm
0.89kg
1 map 21 tables
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Part I. Sounds:
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Sounds and suprasegmentals
- 3. Sound variation
- 4. Sound change
- 5. Phonemes, syllables and phonological processes
- 6. Child phonology
- 7. Processing sounds
- Part II. Words:
- 8. Introduction
- 9. Word classes
- 10. Building words
- 11. Morphology across languages
- 12. Word meaning
- 13. Children and words
- 14. Lexical processing and the mental lexicon
- 15. Lexical disorders
- 16. Lexical variation and change
- Part III. Sentences:
- 17. Introduction
- 18. Basic terminology
- 19. Sentence structure
- 20. Empty categories
- 21. Movement
- 22. Syntactic variation
- 23. Sentence meanings and logical form
- 24. Children's sentences
- 25. Sentence processing
- 26. Syntactic disorders
- 27. Using sentences.
