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About the Book
About the Author
Acknowledgements
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1.1 Linguistics is Science
1.2 Mental Grammar
1.3 Creativity and Generativity
1.4 Fundamental Properties of Language
1.5 Language Change in Progress
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Summary
2.1 How Humans Produce Speech
2.2 Articulators
2.3 Describing Speech Sounds: the IPA
2.4 IPA symbols and speech sounds
2.5 Sonority, Consonants, and Vowels
2.6 Classifying Consonants
2.7 Classifying Vowels
2.8 Diphthongs
2.9 Various Accents of English
2.10 Classifying Signs
3.1 Broad and Narrow Transcription
3.2 IPA for Canadian English
3.3 Stress and Suprasegmental Information
3.4 Syllable Structure
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3.5 Syllabic Consonants
3.6 Aspirated Stops in English
3.7 Articulatory Processes: Assimilation
3.8 Other Articulatory Processes
3.9 Transcribing Casual Speech
3.10 Transcribing Vowels in Canadian English
4.1 Phonemes and Contrast
4.2 Allophones and Predictable Variation
4.3 Phonetic Segments and Features
4.4 Natural Classes
4.5 Phonological Derivations
4.6 Phonological Derivations in Everyday Speech
4.7 Phonological Derivations in Canadian English and Canadian French
5.1 How Babies Learn the Phoneme Categories of Their Language
5.2 How Adults Learn Phoneme Categories in a New Language
5.3 Adults Learning L2 Phonotactics
5.4 Attitudes about Accents
6.1 Words and Morphemes
6.2 Allomorphs
6.3 Inflectional Morphology
6.4 Derivational Morphology
6.5 Inflectional Morphology in Some Indigenous Languages
6.6 Creating New Words
7.1 Nouns, Verbs and Adjectives: Open Class Categories
7.2 Compound Words
7.3 Closed Class Categories (Function Words)
7.4 Auxiliaries
7.5 Neurolinguistics: Syntactic Category Differences in the Brain
8.2 X-bar Phrase Structure
8.3 Constituents
8.4 Sentences are Phrases
8.5 English Verb Forms
8.6 Subcategories
8.7 Grammatical Roles
8.8 Adjuncts
8.9 Move
8.1 Tree Diagrams
8.12 Psycholinguistics: Traces in the Mind
8.10 Wh-Movement
8.11 Do-Support
9.1 Ambiguity
9.2 Events, Participants, and Thematic Roles
9.3 Thematic Roles and Passive Sentences
9.4 Neurolinguistics: Using EEG to Investigate Syntax and Semantics
9.5 Neurolinguistics and Second Language Learning
9.6 Children Learning Syntax
10.1 Elements of Word Meaning: Intensions and Extensions
10.2 Intensions in the Mind
10.3 Psycholinguistics of Word Meanings
10.4 Deixis: Meaning that depends on context
10.5 Pragmatics and the Cooperative Principle
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11.6 Speaking Mohawk and Reconciliation
11.1 Indigenous Languages and the Legacy of Residential Schools
11.2 Preserving Mohawk
11.3 Learning Mohawk
11.4 Mohawk Culture and Language
11.5 Creating Materials for Teaching Mohawk
11.7 The Future of Indigenous Languages in Canada
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