
Language -- English Consonants -- The English Vowel System -- English Stress And Intonation -- The Morpheme -- The Identification Of Morphemes -- Classing Allomorphs Into Morphemes -- Outline Of English Morphology -- Some Types Of Inflection -- Immediate Constituents -- Syntactic Devices -- Transformations -- Language And Grammars -- Some Inflectional Categories -- Articulatory Phonetics -- The Phoneme -- Phonemic Analysis -- Phonemic Field Work -- Interpretations Of English Phonemics -- Phonemic Systems -- Phonemic Problems In Language Learning -- Acoustic Phonetics -- The Process Of Communication -- Variation In Speech -- Writing Systems -- Written Languages -- Language Classification -- Some Languages And Language Families. Includes Bibliography.
This text investigates the foundational principles and methodologies required to analyze language through a descriptive linguistic framework. Henry A. Gleason provides a comprehensive overview of linguistic structures, drawing upon mid-20th-century structuralist methodologies to explain how languages function as systems. The book serves as a systematic guide for students to understand the components of speech, from phonemic analysis to syntactic organization.
What You Will Find
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Experts recognize this work as a classic introductory text that established standard pedagogical approaches to descriptive linguistics. Readers frequently note the academic density of the prose, which remains a staple for understanding the historical development of linguistic methodology.
Page Count:
503
Publication Date:
1961-01-01
Publisher:
Holt Rinehart and Winston
ISBN-10:
0030104653
ISBN-13:
9780030104657
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