List of illustrations
         List of tables
         Preface to the second edition
         A note for course organisers and class teachers
         Introduction
         Linguistics
         Developmental linguistics
         Psycholinguistics
         Neurolinguistics
         Sociolinguistics
         Exercises
         Further reading and references
         Part Ⅰ Sounds
         1 Introduction
         Sounds and suprasegmentals
         Consonants
         Vowels
         Suprasegmentals
         Exercises
         Sound variation
         Linguistic variables and sociological variables
         Stylistic variation
         Linguistically determined variation
         Variation and language change
         Exercises
         Sound change
         Consonant change
         Vowel change
         The transition problem: regular sound change versus lexical
         diffusion
         Suprasegmental change
         Exercises
         Phonemes, syllables and phonological processes
         Phonemes
         Syllables
         Syllabification and the Maximal Onset Principle
         Phonological processes
         Phonological features
         Features and processes
         Constraints in phonology
         Exercises
         Child phonology
         Early achievements
         Phonological processes in acquisition
         Perception, production and a dual-lexicon model
         Exercises
         Processing sounds
         Speech perception
         Speech production
         Other aspects of phonological processing
         Exercises
         Further reading and references
         Part Ⅱ Words
         8 Introduction
         9 Word classes
         Lexical categories
         Functional categories
         The morphological properties of English verbs
         Exercises
         10 Building words
         Morphemes
         Morphological processes - derivation and inflection
         Compounds
         Clitics
         Allomorphy
         Exercises
         11 Morphology across languages
         The agglutinative ideal
         Types of morphological operations
         Exercises
         12 Word meaning
         Entailment and hyponymy
         Meaning opposites
         Semantic features
         Dictionaries and prototypes
         Exercises
         13 Children and words
         Early words - a few facts
         Apprentices in morphology
         The semantic significance of early words
         Exercises
         14 Lexical processing and the mental lexicon
         Serial-autonomous versus parallel-interactive processing models
         On the representation of words in the mental lexicon
         Exercises
         15 Lexical disorders
         Words and morphemes in aphasia
         Agrammatism
         Paraphasias
         Dissociations in SLI subjects' inflectional systems
         Exercises
         16 Lexical variation and change
         Borrowing words
         Register: words for brain surgeons and soccer players,
         hairdressers and lifesavers
         Biscuit or cookie? Variation and change in word choice
         Same word - new meaning
         Variation and change in morphology
         Exercises
         Further reading and references
         Part Ⅲ Sentences
         17 Introduction
         18 Basic terminology
         Categories and functions
         Complex sentences
         The functions of clauses
         Exercises
         19 Sentence structure
         Merger
         Tests for constituency
         Agreement, case assignment and selection
         Exercises
         20 Empty categories
         Empty T constituent
         PRO: the empty subject of infinitive clauses
         Covert complements
         Empty cnmplementisers
         Empty determiners
         Exercises
         21 Movement
         Head movement
         Operator movement
         Yes-no questions
         Other types of movement
         Exercises
         22 Syntactic variation
         Inversion in varieties of English
         Syntactic parameters of variation
         The Null Subject Parameter
         Parametric differences between English and German
         Exercises
         23 Sentence meanings and Logical Form
         Preliminaries
         Thematic roles
         A philosophical diversion
         Covert movement and Logical Form
         Exercises
         24 Children's sentences
         Setting parameters: an example
         Null subjects in early Child English
         Non-finite clauses in Child English
         Children's nominals
         Exercises
         25 Sentence processing
         Click studies
         Processing empty categories
         Strategies of sentence processing
         Exercises
         26 Syntactic disorders
         Agrammatism
         Paragmmmatism
         Specific Language Impairment (SLI)
         Exercises
         27 Using sentences
         Context and pronouns
         Topic/focus
         Presuppositions
         Doing things with words
         The logic of conversation
         Context and coherence
         Relevance Theory
         Taking turns
         Exercises
         Further reading and references
         Conclusion
         Appendix I The International Phonetic Alphabet
         Appendix 2 Phonological distinctive features
         Appendix 3 Distinctive feature matrix for English consonant phonemes
         Bibliography
         Index
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