TY - BOOK AU - Editors O'Grady,William D. AU - Dobrovolsky,Michael AU - Katamba,Francis TI - Contemporary linguistics: an introduction T2 - Learning about language SN - 0582246911 (pbk.) AV - P121 .C5854 1997 U1 - 410 20 PY - 1997/// CY - London PB - Longman KW - Linguistics N1 - Adaptation of: Contemporary linguistics analysis; Includes bibliographical references and index; 1; Language: a preview; William O'Grady, Michael Dobrovolsky and Francis Katamba --; 2; Phonetics: the sounds of language; Michael Dobrovolsky and Francis Katamba --; 3; Phonology: the function and patterning of sounds; Michael Dobrovolsky and Francis Katamba --; 4; Morphology: the analysis of word structure; William O'Grady and Videa P. De Guzman --; 5; Syntax: the analysis of sentence structure; William O'Grady --; 6; Interfaces; Michael Dobrovolsky, William O'Grady and Francis Katamba --; 7; Semantics: the analysis of meaning; William O'Grady --; 8; Historical linguistics: the study of language change; Robert W. Murray --; 9; The classification of languages; Aleksandra Steinbergs --; 10; Brain and language; Gary Libben --; 11; Psycholinguistics: the study of language processing; Gary Libben --; 12; Language acquisition: the emergence of a grammar; Sook Whan Cho and William O'Grady --; 13; Second language acquisition; John Archibald --; 14; Language in social contexts; Ronald H. Southerland and Francis Katamba --; 15; Writing and language; Michael Dobrovolsky and William O'Grady --; 16; Animal communication; Michael Dobrovolsky --; 17; Computational linguistics; Judith Klavans ER -