This book is a self-contained introduction to language and linguistics. suitable for use as a textbook and for self-study. Written by a team of distinguished linguists, 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 provides the tools necessary for understanding this structure, It explains basic concepts and recent theoretical ideas in the major aresa of linguistics (phonetics, phonolog

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Introduction
Further reading and references
Part 1 Sounds
1 Introduction
2 Sounds and suprasegmentals
3 Sound variation
4 Sound change
5 Phonemes,syllables and phonological Processes
5 Child Phonology
7 Processing sounds
Further reading and references
Part 2 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
Further reading and references
Part 3 Sentences
17 Introduction
18 Basic Terminology
19 Sentence structure
20 Empty categories
21 Movement
22 Syntactic variation
23 Logical form
24 Children's sentence
25 Sentence processing
26 Syntactic disorders
Further reading and references
Bibliography
Index
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