Table of Contents

Preface
List of technical abbreviations

1. Language a preview
2. Phonetics: the sound of language
3. Phonology: the function and patterning of sounds
4. Morphology: the analysis of word structure
5. Syntax: the analysis of sentence structure
6. Interfaces
7. Semantics: the analysis of meaning
8. Historical linguistics: the study of language change
9. The classification of languages
10. Brain and language
11. Psycholinguistics: the study of language processing
12. Language Acquisition: the emergence of grammar
13. Second language acquistion
14. Language in social contexts
15. Writing and language
16. Animal communication
17. Computational linguistics

Glossary
Language Index
Subject Index

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