An Introduction to Language continues to be instrumental in introducing students to the fascinating study of human language. Engagingly and clearly written, it provides an overview of the key areas of linguistics from an Australian perspective.
This classic text is suitable for students in fields as diverse as linguistics, computer science, English, communication studies, anthropology, foreign language teaching and speech pathology.
The text is divided into four sections, and chapters take you through the nature of human language, the grammatical aspects and psychology of language, finishing with language and its relation to society.
Popular features from previous editions have been retained for this tenth edition including learning objectives and margin definitions in each chapter, along with summary tables inside the covers, which assist you to learn core concepts and terminology.
Features:
- Bring your learning to life with the locally created INTERACTIVE PHONEME LIST that allows students to hear the sounds of Australian English.
- Covers the major components of language (phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics and pragmatics) in a clear and engaging fashion, retaining its signature student-friendly style
- Reflects the study of linguistics in Australia. Among other things, it takes account of the place of language in Australian society, bases its description of English on the Australian English dialect, includes Australian pronunciations in the phonetics and phonology chapters and uses transcription symbols that are in standard use in this country
- Discusses social and regional variations in English with a focus on dialects, pidgins, creoles and slang from Australia and New Zealand
- Encourage deep learning and independent discovery through the research-oriented exercises at the end of every chapter
- Students can learn and revise the core concepts using the quick reference phoneme lists and syntax tables on the inside front and back covers
- Easily prepare your assessment using the test bank with a variety of questions types for each chapter
- The clear list of learning objectives at the beginning of each chapter assists students to focus their reading
- Help readers to quickly and easily learn linguistic terminology using key terms defined in the margins the first time they are used
- Unique to this text, the International Phonetic Alphabet is represented by both HCE and MD versions, allowing lecturers to use whichever IPA system they prefer
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About the Authors
Victoria Fromkin was Professor of Linguistics and a member of the faculty of the University of California, Department of Linguistics from 1966 until her death in 2000. She served as its chair from 1972–1976. Dr Fromkin published more than one hundred books, monographs and papers on topics concerned with phonetics, phonology, tone languages, African languages, speech errors, processing models, aphasia and the brain/mind/language interface.
Robert Rodman was a Professor of Linguistics and Computer Science at North Carolina State University. His research interests included computational forensic linguistics, speech processing, and in particular, lip synchronisation and voice recognition.
Nina Hyams is Professor of Linguistics and co-director of the UCLA Psycholinguistics Laboratory and the UCLA Infant Language Laboratory. Her main areas of research are childhood language development and syntax. She is author of the book
Language Acquisition and the Theory of Parameters (D. Reidel publishers, 1986) a milestone in language acquisition research. She has also published numerous articles on the development of syntax and morphology in children.
Mengistu Amberber is a Senior Lecturer in Linguistics at the University of New South Wales. His main research interests include the syntax–semantics interface (with particular reference to generative grammar) and linguistic typology. He is the co-editor of
Complex Predicates: Cross-linguistic Perspectives on Event Structure (Cambridge University Press, 2010).
Felicity Cox is an Associate Professor in the Department of Linguistics at Macquarie University. She is the Linguistics Department director of undergraduate studies and convenor of the Bachelor of Speech, Hearing and Language Sciences program. She teaches phonetics and phonology at undergraduate and postgraduate level, and has published widely on the phonetics and phonology of Australian English. Felicity is the author of
Australian English: Pronunciation and Transcription, 2nd edition (Cambridge University Press, 2017).
Rosalind Thornton is an Associate Professor in the Department of Linguistics at Macquarie University and a researcher in the Centre of Excellence for Cognition and its Disorders. Rosalind teaches introductory linguistics, child language acquisition and syntax. Her research focuses on the acquisition of syntax in typically-developing children, and children with Specific Language Impairment.
