Essentials of Linguistics 2e (Anderson et al.)
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This text brings together Open Access content from around the web and enhances it with dynamic video lectures about the core areas of theoretical linguistics (phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics), supplemented with discussion of psycholinguistic and neurolinguistic findings. Essentials of Linguistics is suitable for any beginning learner of linguistics.
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1: Human Language and Language Science
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Doing good with language science 1.6A
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Doing harm with language science 1.5A
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Thinking about standards and “proper” grammar 1.4A
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Studying language scientifically 1.3A
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What grammars are and aren’t 1.2A
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What even is language? 1.1A
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2: Language, Power, and Privilege
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Linguistic law enforcement 2.6A
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Pronouns, language change, and the grammar police 2.5A
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The power of names 2.4A
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Derogation, toxicity, and power imbalances 2.3A
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Language and offence 2.2A
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3: Phonetics
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Tone and intonation 3.12A
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Syllables 3.10A
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Signed language notation 3.9A
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Describing signs 3.8A
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Signed language articulators 3.7A
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The International Phonetic Alphabet 3.6A
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Describing vowels 3.5A
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Describing consonants: Manner 3.4A
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Describing consonants: Place and phonation 3.3A
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4: Phonology
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Phonological derivations 4.8A
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Phonological rules 4.7A
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Another example of phonemic analysis 4.6A
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Phonemic analysis 4.5A
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Complementary distribution 4.4A
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Contrastive distribution and minimal pairs 4.3A
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Phonotactics and natural classes 4.2A
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Phonemes and allophones 4.1A
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5: Morphology
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Structural ambiguity in morphology 5.9A
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Compounding 5.8A
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Inflectional morphology 5.7A
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Derivational morphology 5.6A
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Lexical categories 5.5A
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Allomorphy 5.4A
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Morphology beyond affixes 5.3A
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Roots, bases, and affixes 5.2A
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What is morphology? 5.1A
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6: Syntax
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Identifying phrases: Constituency tests 6.4A
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Structure within the sentence: Phrases, heads, and selection 6.3A
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Word order 6.2A
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Syntactic knowledge and grammaticality judgements 6.1A
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7: Semantics
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Negative polarity items 7.13A
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Introduction to set theory 7.12B
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Introduction to set theory 7.12A
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Denotation 7.11A
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Why not the dictionary? 7.10A
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Individual- vs. stage-level predicates 7.8A
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Countability 7.7A
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Events and thematic roles 7.6A
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The nature of lexical meaning 7.5A
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8: Pragmatics
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Analysing meaning dynamically 8.14A
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Assertion 8.12A
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What is a context? 8.11A
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Thinking about illocutionary meaning compositionally 8.10A
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Illocutionary meaning 8.9A
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Violating vs. flouting a maxim 8.7A
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How inferences arise, and neurodiversity in inference making 8.6A
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The Cooperative Principle 8.5A
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Conversational implicatures 8.4A
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11: Child Language Acquisition
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Growing up bilingual (or multilingual!) 11.9A
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Developing word meanings 11.8A
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Syntax in early utterances 11.7A
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Understanding word combinations 11.6A
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The Language environment and the so-called word gap 11.5A
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Early language production 11.4A
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Phonemic contrast 11.3A
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When does language learning start? 11.2A
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Tiny, powerful language learners 11.1A
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12: Adult Language Learning
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Learning Phonemes and Allophones in a Later Language 12.7A
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Learning Phonetics and Phonotactics in a Later Language 12.6A
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Cognitive processes in language learning 12.4A
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Gaining proficiency 12.3A
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Motivations for adult language learners 12.2A
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Adults are not children 12.1A
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14: Historical Linguistics
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Morphological change 14.4A
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Phonological change 14.3A
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Lexical change 14.2A
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Why do languages change? 14.1A
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15: PSRs and Flat Tree Structures
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Draw a Tree Step-by-Step 15.7A
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Structural Ambiguity 15.4A
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Properties of PSR Trees 15.3A
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Phrase Structure Rules 15.1A
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