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Record Nr.

UNINA9910457713303321

Autore

Harley Heidi

Titolo

English words : a linguistic introduction / / Heidi Harley

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Malden, Massachusetts ; ; Oxford, England ; ; Carlton, Victoria : , : Blackwell Publishing, , 2006

©2006

ISBN

1-119-48567-3

1-4443-4161-8

1-4051-4891-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (320 p.)

Collana

The Language Library

Disciplina

425

Soggetti

English language - Word formation

English language - Morphology

English language - Phonology

English language - Semantics

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preface; Acknowledgments; IPA Transcription Key; 1 What Is a Word?; 1.1 Explaining Word in Words; 1.2 Language Is a Secret Decoder Ring; 1.3 Wordhood: The Whole Kit and Caboodle; 1.4 Two Kinds of Words; 1.5 The Anatomy of a Listeme; 1.6 What Don't You Have to Learn When You're Learning a Word?; 1.7 A Scientific Approach to Language; Appendix: Basic Grammatical Terms; Study Problems; Further Reading; 2 Sound and Fury: English Phonology; 2.1 English Spelling and English Pronunciation; 2.2 The Voice Box; 2.3 The Building Blocks of Words I: Consonants in the IPA

2.4 Building Blocks II: Vowels and the IPA2.5 Families of Sounds and Grimm's Law: A Case in Point; Study Problems; Further Reading; 3 Phonological Words: Calling All Scrabble Players!; 3.1 Guessing at Words: The Scrabble Problem; 3.2 Building Blocks III: The Syllable; 3.3 Phonotactic Restrictions on English Syllables; 3.4 From a Stream of Sound into Words: Speech Perception; 3.5 Syllables, Rhythm, and



Stress; 3.6 Using Stress to Parse the Speech Stream in

Sommario/riassunto

A comprehensive introduction to the study of English words from a theoretically informed linguistic perspective. This book aims to give students a command of the basic theory in each area, skill in analyzing and understanding English words, and the foundation needed for more advanced study in linguistic theory or lexicology.