Linguistics An Introduction
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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…
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Key features
- 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
About the book
- DOI https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511841613
- Subjects English Language and Linguistics: General Interest,Language and Linguistics
- Format: Hardback
- Publication date: 23 February 2009
- ISBN: 9780521849487
- Dimensions (mm): 247 x 174 mm
- Weight: 1.04kg
- Contains: 1 map 21 tables
- Page extent: 450 pages
- Availability: Available
- Format: Paperback
- Publication date: 16 February 2009
- ISBN: 9780521614788
- Dimensions (mm): 247 x 174 mm
- Weight: 0.89kg
- Contains: 1 map 21 tables
- Page extent: 447 pages
- Availability: Available
- Format: Digital
- Publication date: 05 June 2012
- ISBN: 9780511841613
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