… an interest in language are all you need; given those, this introductory book can lead you to
an … It serves as an introductory book for students of linguistics and as important background …

… Since Standard English has no official pronunciation, we find considerable variation
throughout the world: an American does not sound like an Australian and neither sounds like an …

… The asterisk is a useful linguistic convention, but it is not part of … There is an intimate
connection between linguistic theory … , linguists try to determine which aspects of our linguistic …

… This says that we have an object of category N whose number is plural. We shall return to
the details of the notation later during the course. Now, for the merge on the syntactic stratum …

… and rules, is built on an assumption of the essential naturalness … Whereas, twenty years
ago, language was seen as an … present book is an introduction to language and to linguistics. It …

… introduction to modern linguistics that conveys an idea of the scope of the subject, and a feeling
for the excitement of doing linguistics … few weeks of their introductory linguistics course: it …

… Thus, we see an important convergence of the interests of the linguist and the developmental
linguist, with the former seeking to formulate UG principles on the basis of the detailed …

… to handle in an introduc tory course, where phonetics is often the area of linguistics that gets
short … A solid knowledge in phonetics is an invaluable foundation for phonology. With it, the …

… This notion supplies an expansion to the classical relative frequency … of linguistic
phenomena are weighed. In a relative frequency approach a certain number of observed linguistic …

… Aspects of language that link linguistics to anthropology, social studies, and mathematics are
… linguistic assimilation and dissimilation, analogic creation, and the comparative method. An …