An Introduction to Language and Linguistics

Introduction Ralph W. Fasold and Jeff Connor-Linton 1. The sounds of language Elizabeth Zsiga 2. Words and their parts Donna Lardiere 3. The structure of sentences David Lightfoot and Ralph Fasold 4. Meaning Paul Portner 5. Discourse Deborah Schiffrin 6. Child language acquisition Kendall A. King 7. Language and the brain Michael Ullman 8. Language change Shaligram Shukla and Jeff Connor-Linton 9. Dialect variation Natalie Schilling-Estes 10. Language and culture Deborah Tannen 11. The politics of language Ralph W. Fasold 12. Writing Jeff Connor-Linton 13. Second language acquisition Alison Mackey 14. Computational linguistics Inderjeet Mani.