Nick Cipollone
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 516
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An introductory text suitable for courses in language and linguistics for non-majors. Coverage includes animal communication, phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics. Other subjects are psycholinguistics, historical linguistics, language contact, language variation, and visual languages. Includes exercises and problems. This seventh edition features new and revised material on semantics, Ebonics, language and gender, and machine translation. It also provides a chart allowing easy comparison of the American traditional phonetic alphabet and the International Phonetic Alphabet. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR