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Linguistics An Introduction

Authors

Andrew Radford
, University of Essex,
Martin Atkinson
, University of Essex,
David Britain
, University of Essex,
Harald Clahsen
, University of Essex,
Andrew Spencer
, University of Essex
Published 2009

Description

Written 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…

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Key features

  • A uniquely structured textbook, making the various aspects of linguistics clearer to students
  • Updated throughout to reflect recent developments. Features a whole new section on sentence use, and introductions to areas such as pragmatics, conversation analysis and optimality theory
  • Contains a large number of exercises with hints and model answers provided where appropriate

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