An introduction to language and linguistics /
edited by Ralph Fasold and Jeff Connor-Linton.
- Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006.
- xv, 540 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [519]-531) and index.
Introduction / Ralph Fasold and Jeff Connor-Linton -- The sounds of language / Elizabeth Zsiga -- Words and their parts / Donna Lardiere -- The structure of sentences / David Lightfoot and Ralph Fasold -- Meaning / Paul Portner -- Discourse / Deborah Schiffrin -- Child language acquisition / Kendall A. King -- Language and the brain / Michael T. Ullman -- Language change / Shaligram Shukla and Jeff Connor-Linton / Dialect variation / Natalie Schilling-Estes -- Language and culture / Deborah Tanne -- The politics of language / Ralph Fasold -- Writing / Jeff Connor-Linton -- Second language acquisition / Alison Mackey -- Computational linguistics / Inderjeet Mani.