Linguistics

Radford, AndrewAndrew Radford is Professor and Head of Department of Language and Linguistics at the University of Essex.Atkinson, MartinMartin Atkinson is Professor in the Department of Language and Linguistics at the University of Essex.Britain, DavidDavid Britain is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Language and Linguistics at the University of Essex.Clahsen, HaraldHarald Clahsen is Professor in the Department of Language and Linguistics at the University of Essex.Spencer, AndrewAndrew Spencer is Professor in the Department of Language and Linguistics at the University of Essex.

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 disorders, and sociolinguistics, giving the book a unique yet simple structure that helps students to engage with the subject more easily than other textbooks on the market. This edition includes a completely new section on sentence use, including an introduction and discussion of core areas of pragmatics and conversational analysis; coverage of sociolinguistic topics, introducing communities of practice; a wealth of new exercise material and updated further reading.

The second edition of this highly successful textbook offering a unified approach to language from a range of perspectives.

From the contents: List of figures; List of tables; List of maps; List of appendices; A note for course organisers and class teachers on the use of this book; Contents; Introduction; Part I. Sounds:
1. Introduction
2. Sounds and suprasegmentals
3. Sound variation
4. Sound change
5. Phonemes, syllables and phonological processes
6. Child phonology
7. Processing sounds; Part II. 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; Part III. Sentences:
17. Introduction
18. Basic terminology
19. Sentence structure
20. Empty categories
21. Movement
22. Syntactic variation
23. Logical form
24. Children's sentences
25. Sentence processing
26. Syntactic disorders; Bibliography