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Essentials of Linguistics
This text brings together Open Access content from around the web and enhances it with dynamic video lectures about the core areas of theoretical linguistics (phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics), supplemented with discussion of psycholinguistic and neurolinguistic findings. Essentials of Linguistics is suitable for any beginning learner of linguistics but is primarily aimed at the Canadian learner.
- Author
- Catherine Anderson
- Publisher
- McMaster University
- Source
- LibreTexts
- License
- CC BY-SA
- Language
- EN
- Category
- Basic Sciences
Contents· 100 sections
- 01: Thinking Like a Linguist
- 1.01: Linguistics is Science
- 1.02: Mental Grammar
- 1.03: Creativity and Generativity
- 1.04: Fundamental Properties of Language
- 1.05: Practice Time
- 1.06: Summary
- 02: Producing Speech Sounds
- 2.01: Practice Time
- 2.02: Summary
- 2.03: Chapter 3- Transcribing Speech Sounds
- 2.04: How Humans Produce Speech
- 2.05: Practice Time
- 2.06: Summary
- 2.07: Articulators
- 2.08: Describing Speech Sounds- the IPA
- 2.09: 2.4- IPA symbols and speech sounds
- 2.10: Sonority Consonants and Vowels
- 2.11: Classifying Consonants
- 2.12: Classifying Vowels
- 2.13: Diphthongs
- 2.14: Various Accents of English
- 03: Speech Sounds in the Mind
- 3.01: Broad and Narrow Transcription
- 3.02: IPA for Canadian English
- 3.03: Syllabic Consonants
- 3.04: Aspirated Stops in English
- 3.05: Articulatory Processes- Assimilation
- 3.06: Other Articulatory Processes
- 3.07: Practice Time
- 3.08: Summary
- 3.09: Suprasegmentals
- 3.10: Transcribing Casual Speech
- 04: Psycholinguistics of Learning Sounds
- 4.01: Phonemes and Contrast
- 4.02: Allophones and Predictable Variation
- 4.03: Phonetic Segments and Features
- 4.04: Practice Time
- 4.05: Natural Classes
- 4.06: Summary
- 4.07: Phonological Derivations
- 05: Word Forms
- 5.01: How Babies Learn the Phoneme Categories of Their Language
- 5.02: How Adults Learn the Phoneme Categories in a New Language
- 5.03: Practice Time
- 5.04: Summary
- 06: Combining Words
- 6.01: Words and Morphemes
- 6.02: Allomorphs
- 6.03: Inflectional Morphology
- 6.04: Derivational Morphology
- 6.05: Inflectional Morphology in Some Indigenous Languages
- 6.06: Practice Time
- 6.07: Summary
- 07: Forming Sentences
- 7.01: Practice Time
- 7.02: Summary
- 7.03: Nouns Verbs and Adjectives- Open Class Categories
- 7.04: Compound Words
- 7.05: Closed Class Categories (Function Words)
- 7.06: Auxiliaries
- 7.07: Neurolinguistics- Syntactic Category Differences in the Brain
- 08: Sentence Structure and Meaning
- 8.01: Wh-Movement
- 8.02: Do-Support
- 8.03: Psycholinguistics- Traces in the Mind
- 8.04: Tree Diagrams
- 8.05: X-bar Phrase Structure
- 8.06: Constituents
- 8.07: Sentences are Phrases
- 8.08: English Verb Forms
- 8.09: Practice Time
- 8.10: Subcategories
- 8.11: Grammatical Roles
- 8.12: Summary
- 8.13: Adjuncts
- 8.14: Move
- 09: Word Meanings
- 9.01: Ambiguity
- 9.02: Events Participants and Thematic Roles
- 9.03: Thematic Roles and Passive Sentences
- 9.04: Neurolinguistics- Using EEG to Investigate Syntax and Semantics
- 9.05: Practice Time
- 9.06: Neurolinguistics and Second Language Learning
- 9.07: Summary
- 10: Indigenous Languages
- 10.01: Elements of Word Meaning- Intensions and Extensions
- 10.02: Intensions in the Mind
- 10.03: Psycholinguistics of Word Meanings
- 10.04: Practice Time
- 10.05: Summary
- 11: Back Matter Tests
- 11.01: Indigenous Languages and the Legacy of Residential Schools
- 11.02: Testing Keys
- 11.03: Preserving Mohawk
- 11.04: Learning Mohawk
- 11.05: Mohawk Culture and Language
- 11.06: Creating Materials for Teaching Mohawk
- 11.07: Speaking Mohawk and Reconciliation
- 11.08: The Future of Indigenous Languages in Canada