Department of Linguistics. Language Files: Materials for an Introduction to Language and Linguistics

12th Ed. — Ohio State University Press, 2017. — 1069 p. — ISBN10: 0814252702, 13 978-0814252703.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 Cwith 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.
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Introduction: What Is Language? Introducing the Study of Language, What You Know When You Know a Language, Other (Non-Essential) Aspects of Knowing a Language, Design Features of Language, Language Modality, Practice.
Phonetics: What Is Phonetics? Representing Speech Sounds, Articulation: English Consonants, Articulation: English Vowels, Beyond English: Speech Sounds of the World’s Languages, Suprasegmental Features, Acoustic Phonetics, The Phonetics of Signed Languages, Practice.
Phonology: What Is Phonology? Phonotactic Constraints and Foreign Accents, Phonemes and Allophones, Phonological Rules, Implicational Laws, How to Solve Phonology Problems, Practice.
Morphology: What Is Morphology? Words and Word Formation: The Nature of the Lexicon, Morphological Processes, Morphological Types of Languages, The Hierarchical Structure of Derived Words, Morphological Analysis, Practice.
Syntax: What Is Syntax? Basic Ideas of Syntax, Syntactic Properties, Syntactic Constituency, Syntactic Categories, Constructing a Grammar, Practice.
Semantics: What Is Semantics? An Overview of Semantics, Lexical Semantics: The Meanings of Words, Compositional Semantics: The Meanings of Sentences, Compositional Semantics: Putting Meanings Together, Practice.
Pragmatics: What Is Pragmatics? Language in Context, Rules of Conversation, Drawing Conclusions, Speech Acts, Presupposition, Practice.
Language Acquisition: What Is Language Acquisition? Theories of Language Acquisition, First-Language Acquisition: The Acquisition of Speech Sounds and Phonology, First-Language Acquisition: The Acquisition of Morphology, Syntax, and Word Meaning, How Adults Talk to Young Children, Language Acquisition, Practice.
Psycholinguistics: How Do Our Minds Understand and Produce Language? Language and the Brain, Language Disorders, Speech Production, Speech Perception, Lexical Access, Sentence Processing, Experimental Methods in Psycholinguistics, Practice.
Language Variation: What Is Language Variation? Language Varieties, Variation at Different Levels of Linguistic Structure, Factors Influencing Variation: Regional and Geographic Factors, Factors Influencing Variation: Social Factors, Language and Identity, Practice..
Language and Culture: What Is the Study of “Language and Culture”? Anthropology, Language and Thought, Language and Power, Politeness, Ethnography, Practice.
Language Contact: What Is Language Contact? Language Contact, Borrowings into English, Pidgin Languages, Creole Languages, Societal Multilingualism, Language Endangerment and Language Death, Case Studies in Language Contact, Practice.
Language Change: What Is Language Change? Introducing Language Change, Language Relatedness, Sound Change, Morphological Change, Syntactic Change, Semantic Change, Internal Reconstruction and Comparative Reconstruction, Practice.
Animal Communication: How Do Animals Communicate? Communication and Language, Animal Communication in the Wild, Can Animals Be Taught Language? Practice,
Writing Systems: What Is Writing? Writing, Language, and Culture, Types of Writing Systems, The Historical Evolution of Writing Systems, Practice.
Language and Computers: What Is Computational Linguistics? Speech Synthesis, Automatic Speech Recognition, Communicating with Computers, Machine Translation, Corpus Linguistics, Practice.
Practical Applications: What Can You Do with Linguistics? Language Education, Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology, Forensic Linguistics, Language in Advertising, Codes and Code-Breaking, 6Being a Linguist, Practice.