An Introduction to Language 10e

Author: Victoria Fromkin
Publisher: Cengage AU
ISBN: 0170450066
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 48

Book Description
An Introduction to Language introduces students to the fascinating study of human language. Engagingly and clearly written, it provides an overview of the key areas of linguistics from an Australian perspective. Unique to this text, the International Phonetic Alphabet is represented by both HCE and MD versions, allowing lecturers to use whichever IPA system they prefer. Premium online teaching and learning tools are available on the MindTap platform. Learn more about the online tools au.cengage.com/mindtap

An Introduction to Language

Author: Victoria Fromkin
Publisher: Thomson/Nelson
ISBN: 9780176406264
Category : Language and languages
Languages : en
Pages : 715

Book Description
An Introduction to Language, Third Canadian Edition, offers students an up-to-date Canadian perspective on the study of language. This text provides students with the basic tools that will help them advance in a variety of disciplines, including education, psychology, languages, anthropology, communications, computer science, and linguistics.Clearly written and often humorous, with numerous exercises that allow students to test their knowledge, this text will help students better understand one of the essential aspects of our human existence: our ability to use and manipulate language.

How Languages Work

Author: Carol Genetti
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107782570
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 677

Book Description
A new and exciting introduction to linguistics, this textbook presents language in all its amazing complexity, while guiding students gently through the basics. Students emerge with an appreciation of the diversity of the world's languages, as well as a deeper understanding of the structure of human language, the ways it is used, and its broader social and cultural context. Chapters introducing the nuts and bolts of language study (phonology, syntax, meaning) are combined with those on the 'functions' of language (discourse, prosody, pragmatics, and language contact), helping students gain a better grasp of how language works in the real world. A rich set of language 'profiles' help students explore the world's linguistic diversity, identify similarities and differences between languages, and encourages them to apply concepts from earlier chapter material. A range of carefully designed pedagogical features encourage student engagement, adopting a step-by-step approach and using study questions and case studies.

An Introduction to Language

Author: Victoria Fromkin
Publisher: Cengage Learning
ISBN: 9781337559577
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
AN INTRODUCTION TO LANGUAGE, 11th Edition, offers an up-to-date look at language studies and linguistics in today's world. This product is fresh and modern, and includes new developments in linguistics and related fields that strengthen its appeal to a wider audience. At the same time, it maintains the acclaimed light, friendly, readable style and the breadth of coverage that have made it a perennial best seller. The authors examine grammatical subjects (e.g., morphology, syntax, semantics, phonetics, phonology), childhood language development and adult secondary language acquisition, and the tremendous leap in knowledge achieved in neurolinguistics. Important Notice: Media content referenced within the product description or the product text may not be available in the ebook version.

An Introduction to the Languages of the World

Author: Anatole Lyovin
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195149882
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 545

Book Description
The only textbook of its kind, An Introduction to the Languages of the World is designed to introduce beginning linguistics students, who now typically start their study with little background in languages, to the variety of the languages of the world.

An Introduction to Language and Linguistics

Author: Ralph Fasold
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521847680
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 481

Book Description
This accessible textbook offers balanced and uniformly excellent coverage of modern linguistics.

Linguistics for Everyone

Author: Kristin E. Denham
Publisher: Cengage Learning
ISBN: 9781111836603
Category : Linguistics
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
LINGUISTICS FOR EVERYONE, 2E, International Edition connects the study of linguistics to the language you use every day. The text is very user-friendly: casual writing style, logical presentation of material, balance of theoretical and practical, entertaining information, and lots of ideas and activities to put what you learn to use right away. The first chapter gives you the basics such as how to define language, new ways to look at grammar, your innate knowledge about language. Later chapters address core linguistics areas in depth (phonetics and phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics). Many innovative and varied activities help you review and practice the content and apply the knowledge immediately. Special features throughout the book demystify common curiosities about how language works.

An Introduction to Language International Edition

Author: Victoria A. Fromkin
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781111326562
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 641

Book Description
Assuming no prior knowledge of linguistics, AN INTRODUCTION TO LANGUAGE, International Edition, is appropriate for a variety of fields--including education, languages, psychology, anthropology, English, and teaching English as a Second Language (TESL)--at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. This completely updated edition retains the clear descriptions, humor, and seamless pedagogy that have made the text a perennial best-seller, while adding new information and exercises that render each topic fresh, engaging, and current.

Language Acquisition and the Theory of Parameters

Author: Nina Hyams
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9400946384
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 239

Book Description
This book is perhaps the most stunning available demonstration of the explanatory power of the parametric approach to linguistic theory. It is akin, not to a deductive proof, but to the discovery of a footprint in a far-off place which leaves an archeologist elated. The book is full of intricate reasoning, but the stunning aspect is that the reasoning moves between not only complex syntax and diverse languages, but it makes predictions about what two-year-old children will assume about the jumble of linguistic input that confronts them. Those predictions, Hyams shows, are supported by a discriminating analysis of acquisition data in English and Italian. Let us examine the linguistic context for a moment before we discuss her theory. The ultimate issue in linguistic theory is the explanation of how a child can acquire any human language. To capture this fact we must posit an innate mechanism which meets two opposite constraints: it must be broad enough to account for the diversity of human language, and narrow enough so that the child does not make irrelevant hypotheses about his own language, particularly ones from which there is no recovery. That is, a child must not posit a grammar which permits all of the sentences of a language as well as other sentences which are not in the language. In a word, the child must not create a language in which one cannot make adult discriminations between grammatical and ungrammatical.

Language Files

Author: Department Of Linguistics
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780814252703
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 742

Book Description
Language Files: Materials for an Introduction to Language and Linguistics has become one of the most widely adopted, consulted, and authoritative introductory textbooks to linguistics ever written. The scope of the text makes it suitable for use in a wide range of courses, while its unique organization into student-friendly, self-contained sections allows for tremendous flexibility in course design. The twelfth edition has been significantly revised, clarified, and updated throughout--with particular attention to the chapters on phonetics, phonology, pragmatics, and especially psycholinguistics. The restructured chapter on psycholinguistics makes use of recent research on language in the brain and includes expanded coverage of language processing disorders, introducing students to current models of speech perception and production and cutting-edge research techniques. In addition, exercises have been updated, and icons have been added to the text margins throughout the book, pointing instructors and students to useful and engaging audio files, videos, and other online resources on the accompanying Language Files website, which has also been significantly expanded.