Radford Andrew, Atkinson Martin, Britain David, Clahsen Harald, Spencer Andrew. Linguistics: An Introduction

2nd edition. — Cambridge University Press, 2009. — 451 p.
Quality: goodWritten 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; new coverage of sociolinguistic topics, introducing communities of practice; a wealth of new exercise material and updated further reading.List of illustrations page
List of tables
Preface to the second edition
A note for course organisers and class teachersFurther reading and references
Sounds
Words
Sentences
Conclusion 407
Appendix 1 The International Phonetic Alphabet
Appendix 2 Phonological distinctive features
Appendix 3 Distinctive feature matrix for English consonant phonemesISBN-13: 978-0-511-47924-3 eBook (EBL)
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