Linguistics for Non-Linguists: A Primer with Exercises, 5th edition

Frank Parker
Kathryn Riley

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Hundreds of exercises distributed throughout the text, immediately after the concepts they are related to, help reinforce the material just learned.

Supplementary Exercises at the end of each chapter provide additional opportunities to expand on the chapter material. Provides answers to selected exercises to help students check their work and offers an Instructor's Manual with Answer Key to all exercises.

Filled with clear explanations, charts, tables, and illustrations.

“Supplementary Readings” at the end of each chapter provide students with both classic and current resources about chapter concepts.

New chapter on language change.

Updated material throughout.

Many new exercises, ranging from short-answer problems to suggestions for out-of-class projects.

Updated “Supplementary Readings” providing additional information about each topic.

NOTE: Each chapter concludes with Summary, Supplementary Readings, Supplementary Exercises, and Exploratory Exercises.

1. Introduction

2. Pragmatics

Implicature
- Conversational Maxims
Speech Acts
- A Taxonomy of Illocutionary Acts
- Felicity Conditions
- Explicit Versus Nonexplicit Illocutionary Acts
- Direct Versus Indirect Illocutionary Acts
- Expressed Versus Implied Locutionary Acts
- Literal Versus Nonliteral Locutionary Acts
- Overview of Speech Act Theory

3. Semantics

Background
Sense
Reference
Truth

4. Syntax

Categories
Left-to-Right Ordering
Constituent Structure
X-Bar Syntax
Transformations
- Movement
- Constraints on Movement

5. Morphology

Morphemes
Lexical and Grammatical Morphemes
Free and Bound Morphemes
Inflectional and Derivational Morphemes
- Inflectional Affixes
- Derivational Affixes
- Differences Between Types of Affixes
Word-Formation Processes

6. Phonology

Vocal Tract
Segments
Phonemic Alphabet
- Vowels
- Consonants
Levels of Representation
Phonological Rules
- Aspiration
- Vowel Lengthening
- Vowel Nasalization
- Flapping
- Rule Ordering

7. Language Processing

Sentence-Level Phenomena in Language Processing
- Resolving Syntactic Ambiguity
- Resolving Ambiguous Pronoun Reference
- Understanding Negative Sentences
- Processing Passive Sentences
- Processing Complex Sentences
- Processing Heavy NPs
Discourse-Level Phenomena in Language Processing
- Readability
- Schemata and Scripts
- Cohesion
- Thematic Roles
- The Given-New Contract
- Reading Between the Lines

8. Language Variation

Language Universals, Languages, Dialects, and Idiolects
Regional Variation
- Regional Lexical Variation
- Regional Phonological Variation
Social Variation
- Nonstandard Phonological Variation
- Nonstandard Morphological Variation
- Nonstandard Syntactic Variation
Language and Gender
- Gender as a Social Variable
- Gender Patterns Within Standard English
Stylistic Variation
- Stylistic Lexical Variation
- Stylistic Phonological Variation
- Stylistic Morphological Variation
- Stylistic Syntactic Variation

9. Language Change

Background
Semantic Change
Syntactic Change
- Word Order Typology
- Rule Change
Morphological Change
Phonological Change
Causes of Change

10. First-Language Acquisition

Prelinguistic Stages
Linguistic Stages
- Acquisition of Phonology
- Acquisition of Morphology
- Acquisition of Syntax
- Acquisition of Semantics
Issues in Language Acquisition
- Nativism and Empiricism
- Language-Specific and General Cognitive Capacities
- Chomsky’s Position

11. Second-Language Acquisition

Issues in Second-Language Acquisition
- Interlanguage Theory
- Language Transfer
- Other Linguistic Factors
Patterns in Second-Language Acquisition
- Phonology
- Morphology
- Syntax
- Semantics
Nonlinguistic Influences on Second-Language Acquisition

12. Written Language

Writing Systems
The English Spelling System
- Reasons for Inconsistency in English Spelling
- English Spelling and Morphophonemics
Analyzing Errors in Written English
- Phonology and Spelling
- Morphology and Writing

13. The Neurology of Language

Anatomy of the Nervous System
- Lobes
- Convolutions and Fissures
- Broca’s Area
- Wernicke’s Area
- Supplementary Motor Cortex
Hemispherical Specialization
- Left-Hemisphere Dominance for Language
- Left Brain Versus Right Brain
- Handedness
Aphasia

References

Glossary

Answers to Selected Exercises

Author Index

Subject Index

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