Each chapter ends with “Summary,” “Supplementary Readings,” and “Supplementary Exercises.”
Preface.
1. Introduction.
2. Pragmatics.
Implicature. Speech Acts.
3. Semantics.
Background. Sense. Reference. Truth.
4. Syntax.
Categories. Left-to-Right Ordering. Transformations.
5. Morphology.
Morphemes. Lexical and Grammatical Morphemes. Free and Bound Morphemes. Inflectional and Derivational Morphemes. Word-Formation Processes.
6. Phonology.
Vocal Tract. Segments. Phonemic Alphabet. Levels of Representation. Phonological Rules.
7. Language Variation.
Language Universals, Languages, Dialects, and Idiolects. Regional Variation. Social Variation. Language and Gender. Stylistic Variation.
8. First-Language Acquisition.
Prelinguistic Stages. Linguistic Stages. Issues in Language Acquisition.
9. Second-Language Acquisition.
Issues in Second-Language Acquisition. Patterns in Second-Language Acquisition. Nonlinguistic Influences on Second-Language Acquisition.
10. Written Language.
Writing Systems. The English Spelling System. Analyzing Errors in Written English.
11. Language Processing.
Sentence-Level Phenomena in Language Processing. Discourse-Level Phenomena in Language Processing. Perceptions about Tone.
12. The Neurology of Language.
Anatomy of the Nervous System. Background of Neurolinguistics. Hemispherical Specialization. Disorders.
13. Conclusion.
References.
Glossary.
Answers to Selected Exercises.
Author Index.
Subject Index.
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