This accessible textbook offers balanced and uniformly excellent coverage of modern linguistics.
This 1981 book is a general introduction to linguistics and the study of language, intended particularly for beginning students and readers with no previous knowledge or training in the subject.
Unique to this text, the International Phonetic Alphabet is represented by both HCE and MD versions, allowing lecturers to use whichever IPA system they prefer.
Updated and expanded in its second edition, this book introduces language and linguistics - presenting language in all its amazing complexity while systematically guiding you through the basics.
An Introduction to Language offers an engaging guide to the nature of language, focusing on how language works – its sounds, words, structures, and phrases – all investigated through wide-ranging examples from Old English to ...
The updated and expanded edition of the most comprehensive and accessible introductory linguistics textbook on the market.
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Language Files: Materials for an Introduction to Language and Linguistics
I-Language introduces the uninitiated to linguistics as cognitive science. In an engaging, down-to-earth style Daniela Isac and Charles Reiss give a crystal-clear demonstration of the application of the scientific method...
By first examining the real world applications of core areas of linguistics and then addressing the theory behind these applications, this text offers an inductive, illustrative, and interactive overview for students.
Now consider the Welsh and the Hungarian versions of the Lord's Prayer: • Welsh: Ein tad, yr hwn wyt yn y nefoedd: sancteiddier dy enw. • Modern Hungarian: Mi Atyánk, ki vagya mennyekben, szenteltessék mega te neven.