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"Language Files" Table Of Contents:

• 1- List of Symbols
• 2- Preface to the Twelfth Edition
• 3- Acknowledgments
• 4- Introduction
• 5- What Is Language?
• 6- Introducing the Study of Language
• 7- What You Know When You Know a Language
• 8- Other (Non-Essential) Aspects of Knowing a Language
• 9- Design Features of Language
• 10- Language Modality
• 11- Practice
• 12- Phonetics
• 13- What Is Phonetics?
• 14- Representing Speech Sounds
• 15- Articulation: English Consonants
• 16- Articulation: English Vowels
• 17- Beyond English: Speech Sounds of the World's Languages
• 18- Suprasegmental Features
• 19- Acoustic Phonetics
• 20- The Phonetics of Signed Languages
• 21- Practice
• 22- Phonology
• 23- What Is Phonology?
• 24- Phonotactic Constraints and Foreign Accents
• 25- Phonemes and Allophones
• 26- Phonological Rules
• 27- Implicational Laws
• 28- How to Solve Phonology Problems
• 29- Practice
• 30- Morphology
• 31- What Is Morphology?
• 32- Words and Word Formation: The Nature of the Lexicon
• 33- Morphological Processes
• 34- Morphological Types of Languages
• 35- The Hierarchical Structure of Derived Words
• 36- Morphological Analysis
• 37- Practice
• 38- Syntax
• 39- What Is Syntax?
• 40- Basic Ideas of Syntax
• 41- Syntactic Properties
• 42- Syntactic Constituency
• 43- Syntactic Categories
• 44- Constructing a Grammar
• 45- Practice
• 46- Semantics
• 47- What Is Semantics?
• 48- An Overview of Semantics
• 49- Lexical Semantics: The Meanings of Words
• 50- Compositional Semantics: The Meanings of Sentences
• 51- Compositional Semantics: Putting Meanings Together
• 52- Practice
• 53- Pragmatics
• 54- What Is Pragmatics?
• 55- Language in Context
• 56- Rules of Conversation
• 57- Drawing Conclusions
• 58- Speech Acts
• 59- Presupposition
• 60- Practice
• 61- Language Acquisition
• 62- What Is Language Acquisition?
• 63- Theories of Language Acquisition
• 64- First-Language Acquisition: The Acquisition of Speech Sounds and Phonology
• 65- First-Language Acquisition: The Acquisition of Morphology, Syntax, and Word Meaning
• 66- How Adults Talk to Young Children
• 67- Bilingual Language Acquisition
• 68- Practice
• 69- Psycholinguistics
• 70- How Do Our Minds Understand and Produce Language?
• 71- Language and the Brain
• 72- Language Disorders
• 73- Speech Production
• 74- Speech Perception
• 75- Lexical Access
• 76- Sentence Processing
• 77- Experimental Methods in Psycholinguistics
• 78- Practice
• 79- Language Variation
• 80- What Is Language Variation?
• 81- Language Varieties
• 82- Variation at Different Levels of Linguistic Structure
• 83- Factors Influencing Variation: Regional and Geographic Factors
• 84- Factors Influencing Variation: Social Factors
• 85- Language and Identity
• 86- Practice
• 87- Language and Culture
• 88- What Is the Study of "Language and Culture"?
• 89- Linguistic Anthropology
• 90- Language and Thought
• 91- Language and Power
• 92- Politeness
• 93- Ethnography
• 94- Practice
• 95- Language Contact
• 96- What Is Language Contact?
• 97- Language Contact
• 98- Borrowings into English
• 99- Pidgin Languages
• 100- Creole Languages
• 101- Societal Multilingualism
• 102- Language Endangerment and Language Death
• 103- Case Studies in Language Contact
• 104- Practice
• 105- Language Change
• 106- What Is Language Change?
• 107- Introducing Language Change
• 108- Language Relatedness
• 109- Sound Change
• 110- Morphological Change
• 111- Syntactic Change
• 112- Semantic Change
• 113- Internal Reconstruction and Comparative Reconstruction
• 114- Practice
• 115- Animal Communication
• 116- How Do Animals Communicate?
• 117- Communication and Language
• 118- Animal Communication in the Wild
• 119- Can Animals Be Taught Language?
• 120- Practice
• 121- Writing Systems
• 122- What Is Writing?
• 123- Writing, Language, and Culture
• 124- Types of Writing Systems
• 125- The Historical Evolution of Writing Systems
• 126- Practice
• 127- Language and Computers
• 128- What Is Computational Linguistics?
• 129- Speech Synthesis
• 130- Automatic Speech Recognition
• 131- Communicating with Computers
• 132- Machine Translation
• 133- Corpus Linguistics
• 134- Practice
• 135- Practical Applications
• 136- What Can You Do with Linguistics?
• 137- Language Education
• 138- Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology
• 139- Forensic Linguistics
• 140- Language in Advertising
• 141- Codes and Code-Breaking
• 142- Being a Linguist
• 143- Practice
• 144- Appendix: Answers to Example Exercises
• 145- Glossary
• 146- Selected Bibliography
• 147- Language Index
• 148- Subject Index
• 149- IPA Symbols and Example Words
• 150- American English Consonant and Vowel Charts
• 151- Official IPA Chart

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