Essentials of Linguistics
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English
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Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Table Of Contents
About the Book
About the Author
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1: Thinking Like a Linguist
1.1 Linguistics is Science
1.2 Mental Grammar
1.3 Creativity and Generativity
1.4 Fundamental Properties of Language
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Chapter 2: Producing Speech Sounds
2.1 How Humans Produce Speech
2.2 Articulators
2.3 Describing Speech Sounds: the IPA
2.4 IPA symbols and speech sounds
2.5 Sonority, Consonants, and Vowels
2.6 Classifying Consonants
2.7 Classifying Vowels
2.8 Diphthongs
2.9 Various Accents of English
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Chapter 3: Transcribing Speech Sounds
3.1 Broad and Narrow Transcription
3.2 IPA for Canadian English
3.3 Syllabic Consonants
3.4 Aspirated Stops in English
3.5 Articulatory Processes: Assimilation
3.6 Other Articulatory Processes
3.7 Suprasegmentals
3.8 Transcribing Casual Speech
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Chapter 4: Speech Sounds in the Mind
4.1 Phonemes and Contrast
4.2 Allophones and Predictable Variation
4.3 Phonetic Segments and Features
4.4 Natural Classes
4.5 Phonological Derivations
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Chapter 5: Psycholinguistics of Learning Sounds
5.1 How Babies Learn the Phoneme Categories of Their Language
5.2 How Adults Learn the Phoneme Categories in a New Language
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Chapter 6: Word Forms
6.1 Words and Morphemes
6.2 Allomorphs
6.3 Inflectional Morphology
6.4 Derivational Morphology
6.5 Inflectional Morphology in Some Indigenous Languages
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Chapter 7: Combining Words
7.1 Nouns, Verbs and Adjectives: Open Class Categories
7.2 Compound Words
7.3 Closed Class Categories (Function Words)
7.4 Auxiliaries
7.5 Neurolinguistics: Syntactic Category Differences in the Brain
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Chapter 8: Forming Sentences
8.1 Tree Diagrams
8.2 X-bar Phrase Structure
8.3 Constituents
8.4 Sentences are Phrases
8.5 English Verb Forms
8.6 Subcategories
8.7 Grammatical Roles
8.8 Adjuncts
8.9 Move
8.10 Wh-Movement
8.11 Do-Support
8.12 Psycholinguistics: Traces in the Mind
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Chapter 9: Sentence Structure and Meaning
9.1 Ambiguity
9.2 Events, Participants, and Thematic Roles
9.3 Thematic Roles and Passive Sentences
9.4 Neurolinguistics: Using EEG to Investigate Syntax and Semantics
9.5 Neurolinguistics and Second Language Learning
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Chapter 10: Word Meanings
10.1 Elements of Word Meaning: Intensions and Extensions
10.2 Intensions in the Mind
10.3 Psycholinguistics of Word Meanings
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Chapter 11: Indigenous Languages
11.1 Indigenous Languages and the Legacy of Residential Schools
11.2 Preserving Mohawk
11.3 Learning Mohawk
11.4 Mohawk Culture and Language
11.5 Creating Materials for Teaching Mohawk
11.6 Speaking Mohawk and Reconciliation
11.7 The Future of Indigenous Languages in Canada
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