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Essentials of Linguistics 2e
Catherine Anderson, Bronwyn Bjorkman, Derek Denis, Julianne Doner, Margaret Grant, Nathan Sanders, and Ai Taniguchi · McMaster University
In the contents: 1.07: Exercise your linguistics skills · 1.08: Three waves of sociolinguistics · 2.08: Exercise your linguistics skills
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Corpus Linguistics: A Guide to the Methodology
Anatol Stefanowitsch · Freie Universität Berlin
In the contents: 1.4 Corpus data in other sub-disciplines of linguistics · 02: What is corpus linguistics · 2.02: Towards a definition of corpus linguistics
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Essentials of Linguistics
Catherine Anderson · McMaster University
In the contents: 1.01: Linguistics is Science · 04: Psycholinguistics of Learning Sounds · 7.07: Neurolinguistics- Syntactic Category Differences in the Brain
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ENGL LING 200 Introduction to Linguistics
Sarah Harmon · Cañada College
In the contents: 1.01: What is linguistics · 07: Language and Society- Sociolinguistics · 01: Sociolinguistics definitions
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Essentials of Linguistics Remix 2.0
Sarah Harmon · Cañada College
In the contents: 01: What Is Linguistics What Is Language · 1.01: Linguistics as a social science · 1.03: Linguistics is a science
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Anthropology: Being Human
Susan Ruth · Central New Mexico Community College
This introductory textbook in anthropology is designed to give you an understanding of the diversity of the human experience. Students will become familiar with the four subfields of anthropology: cultural anthropology, archaeology, linguistics and biological anthropology. We will discuss the diversity of world cultures, the human fossil record, the human past, and the development and use of language.
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Psychology of Language
Dinesh Ramoo · Thompson Rivers University
In the contents: 1.03: Research Methods in Psycholinguistics
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Anthropology: The Study of Humans
Jeffrey McCully · Moraine Valley Community College
In the contents: 08: Introduction to Linguistics · 11: Historical Linguistics
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How Language Works
Michael Gasser · Indiana University
Linguistics is the science of language; it treats language and the ways people use it as phenomena to be studied much as a geologist treats the earth. Linguists want to figure out how language works. They are no more in the business of making value judgments about people's language than geologists are in the business of making value judgments about the behavior of the earth.
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Analyzing Meaning - An Introduction to Semantics and Pragmatics
Paul Kroeger · Dallas International University
This book provides an introduction to the study of meaning in human language, from a linguistic perspective. It covers a fairly broad range of topics, including lexical semantics, compositional semantics, and pragmatics. The chapters are organized into six units: (1) Foundational concepts; (2) Word meanings; (3) Implicature (including indirect speech acts); (4) Compositional semantics; (5) Modals, conditionals, and causation; (6) Tense & aspect.
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Psychology of Language
Dinesh Ramoo; Marie Bartlett · BCcampus · 2021
In this textbook, students are introduced to the fundamental principles of linguistics and psycholinguistics. Students will explore theories and models of language development, comprehension and production as well as bilingualism and reading. All of these topics are approached from a Canadian perspective and include ideas from indigenous cultures and languages of Canada.
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Mind, Body, World: Foundations of Cognitive Science
Michael Dawson · Athabasca University Press · 2013
Cognitive science arose in the 1950s when it became apparent that a number of disciplines, including psychology, computer science, linguistics, and philosophy, were fragmenting. Perhaps owing to the field's immediate origins in cybernetics, as well as to the foundational assumption that cognition is information processing, cognitive science initially seemed more unified than psychology. However, as a result of differing interpretations of the foundational assumption and dramatically divergent views of the meaning of the term information processing, three separate schools emerged: classical cognitive science, connectionist cognitive science, and embodied cognitive science. Examples, cases, and research findings taken from the wide range of phenomena studied by cognitive scientists effectively explain and explore the relationship among the three perspectives. Intended to introduce both graduate and senior undergraduate students to the foundations of cognitive science, Mind, Body, World addresses a number of questions currently being asked by those practicing in the field: What are the core assumptions of the three different schools? What are the relationships between these different sets of core assumptions? Is there only one cognitive science, or are there many different cognitive sciences? Giving the schools equal treatment and displaying a broad and deep understanding of the field, Dawson highlights the fundamental tensions and lines of fragmentation that exist among the schools and provides a refreshing and unifying framework for students of cognitive science.
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Languages and Worldview
Manon Allard-Kropp · University of Missouri - St. Louis · 2020
Asking and answering questions about what culture entails and examines the fundamental properties and intertwining nature of language and culture. This text explores linguistic relativity, lexical differences among languages and intercultural communication, including high and low contexts. Changes to a variety of OER works were made by Manon Allard-Kropp in the Department of Language and Cultural Studies to tailor the text to fit the needs of the Languages and World View course at the University of Missouri–St. Louis. Materials from the original sources have been combined, reorganized, and added to by the current author, and any conceptual or typographical errors are the responsibility of the current author.
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Introduction to Anthropology: A Four Field Approach
Matthew Pawlowicz, Christopher A Brooks, Nancy Phaup, and Amy Rector · Virginia Commonwealth University
In the contents: 4.03: Sociolinguistics- Language and Social Status
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Child Growth & Development Remix 2026
Kim Martin · Copper Mountain College
In the contents: 11.08: Introduction to Linguistics
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Language in Action: An Open Invitation to Linguistic Anthropology (remixed by Debbie Klein)
Debbie Klein · Gavilan College
In the contents: 2.08: Exercise your linguistics skills · 4.11: Exercise your linguistics skills · 6.01: What is variationist sociolinguistics
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Child Developmental Psychology - Topical Approach
Bakhtawar Bhadha · Pasadena City College
In the contents: 12.01: Linguistics
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Cognitive Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience
Wikibooks · Wikipedia
In the contents: 9.02: Historical Review on Psycholinguistics and Neurolinguistics
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Child Growth and Develpment (MPTC Version)
Paris, Ricardo, Rymond, and Johnson · College of the Canyons
In the contents: 7.08: Introduction to Linguistics
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Cognitive Psychology
Mehgan Andrade and Neil Walker · College of the Canyons
Ultimately Cognitive psychology is the scientific investigation of human cognition, that is, all our mental abilities – perceiving, learning, remembering, thinking, reasoning, and understanding. It is closely related to the highly interdisciplinary cognitive science and influenced by artificial intelligence, computer science, philosophy, anthropology, linguistics, biology, physics, and neuroscience. Cognitive psychology studies how people acquire and apply knowledge or information.