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Table of Contents:
Chapter 1  The Nature of Communication     The Nature of Communication     Nonhuman and Human Communication Compared     Chimpanzees and Gorillas in Controlled Environments     Skepticism over Ape Language Studies     Summary     Suggested Reading     Suggested Websites     Review of Terms and Concepts     End of Chapter Questions       Chapter 2   The Phonological Component: Phonetics     Articulatory Phonetics     Consonants and Vowels     Syllables and Syllabic Consonants     Suprasegmentals     Connected Speech     Summary     Suggested Reading     Suggested Websites     Review of Terms and Concepts     End of Chapter Exercises      Chapter 3   The Phonological Component: Phonology     The Phoneme and the Concept of Significant Differences in Sounds     Distinctive Feature Analysis     Phonological Processes     The Continuous and Complex Nature of Speech, Revised     Summary     Suggested Reading     Suggested Websites     Review of Terms and Concepts     End of Chapter Exercises      Chapter 4   The Morphological Component     The Morpheme     Morphological Typology     How New Words Are Formed     Lexical Categories     Summary     Suggested Reading     Suggested Websites     Review of Terms and Concepts     End of Chapter Exercises      Chapter 5   Syntax Syntactic Construction     Grammaticality Judgments and Ambiguity The Constituent Structure of Sentences     Phrase Structure Rules     Transformational Rules     Optional and Obligatory Transformations     Summary     Suggested Reading     Suggested Websites     Review of Terms and Concepts      Chapter 6   Semantics and Pragmatics     The Meaning of Words: Lexical Semantics     The -Nyms     Other Kinds of Meaning: Structural Semantics     Pragmatics     Summary     Suggested Reading     Suggested Websites     Review of Terms and Concepts     Fieldwork Project       Chapter 7   Sociolinguistics and Linguistic Anthropology     Regional Dialects     African American English     Hispanic English     Contact Languages: Pidgins and Creoles     Situational Dialects or Registers     Gender and Language     Linguistic Anthropology     Language and Nationalism     Summary     Suggested Reading     Suggested Websites     Review of Terms and Concepts      Chapter 8   Language Acquisition     Language and the Brain     Ideas about Language Acquisition     How Do Children Acquire the Components of Language?     Language Socialization: Three Examples     The Acquisition of Sign Language     Bilingualism     Summary     Suggested Reading     Suggested Websites     Review of Terms and Concepts       Chapter 9   Sign Language     The Nature of Sign Language     What Is ASL?     Nicaraguan Sign Language: The Birth of a New Language     Social Dimensions of Sign Language     Summary     Suggested Reading     Suggested Websites     Review of Terms and Concepts   End of Chapter Exercises      Chapter 10   Writing Systems     Writing Is Secondary to Speech and Sign Language     Types of Writing Systems     The History of Writing     The Printing Press     A Few Words about Computers     Summary     Suggested Reading     Suggested Websites     Review of Terms and Concepts   End of Chapter Exercises      Chapter 11   Nonverbal Communication     What Does “Nonverbal” Mean?     Kinesic Behavior     Affect Displays     The Eyes Have It     Physical Appearance     Touching (Tactile) Behavior     Paralanguage     Proxemics     The Physical Environment     “How-To” Books: A Word of Caution     Summary     Suggested Reading     Suggested Websites     Review of Terms and Concepts     End of Chapter Exercises      Chapter 12   Historical Linguistics     The Relationships between Languages     Types of Language Change     How Long Does It Take a Language to Change?     Disappearing, Reappearing, and Emerging Languages     The Spread of Englishes     New Jargons     Summary     Suggested Reading     Suggested Websites     Review of Terms and Concepts       Appendix A: Answers to Reviews of Terms and Concepts     Appendix B: Answers to Selected Exercises     Appendix C: Fieldwork Exercises     Glossary Index