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Contemporary Linguistics can be used from first year through to
final year as a main text for students taking degree courses in
linguistics, English language and cognitive science and by MA
students on TEFL courses. It is also highly suitable for students
taking language options in media and cultural studies, modern
language, psychology and philosophy, as well as for speech therapy
courses. Contemporary Linguistics : An introduction is a
comprehensive, fully up-to-date introduction to linguistics. The
book covers not only how language is structured, but also how it
functions both socially and culturally, and how it is acquired and
processed by speakers. It will prepare students to go on to more
advanced work and, at the same time, will serve as a basic
reference that students can continue to consult throughout their
studies. The text explores all the core areas of linguistics as
well as numerous interdisciplinary and related areas. Core topics
covered include phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax,
semantics, the genetic and typological classification of the
languages of the world, and historical linguistics.
Interdisciplinary areas discussed include language and the brain,
psycholinguistics - the study of language processing, first and
second language acquisition, language in social contexts and the
fast-growing area of computational linguistics. Related areas
explored include writing systems and animal communication.
Syntactic Carpentry: An Emergentist Approach to Syntax presents a
groundbreaking approach to the study of sentence formation.
Building on the emergentist thesis that the structure and use of
language is shaped by more basic, non-linguistic forces--rather
than by an innate Universal Grammar--William O'Grady shows how the
defining properties of various core syntactic phenomena (phrase
structure, co-reference, control, agreement, contraction, and
extraction) follow from the operation of a linear,
efficiency-driven processor. This in turn leads to a compelling new
view of sentence formation that subsumes syntactic theory into the
theory of sentence processing, eliminating grammar in the
traditional sense from the study of the language faculty. With this
text, O'Grady advances a growing body of literature on emergentist
approaches to language, and situates this work in a broader picture
that also includes attention to key issues in the study of language
acquisition, psycholinguistics, and agrammaticism. This book
constitutes essential reading for anyone interested in syntax and
its place in the larger enterprise of cognitive science.
This book is a highly readable introduction to Korean pronunciation
for students at all levels of proficiency. Beginners will find the
information and practice they need to cross the threshold of
intelligibility in Korean, while more advanced students will have
the opportunity to fine-tune their pronunciation and improve their
comprehension. The Sounds of Korean focuses on the most challenging
features of Korean pronunciation. Careful attention is paid to the
way in which a sound's pronunciation can be modified in different
contexts. The first part of the text consists of an overview and
chapters on vowel and consonant sounds in Korean, adjustment
processes that modify speech sounds in different positions within
words and phrases, and the role of prosody in expressing meaning
and emotion. The practice exercises that follow are paired with the
various contrasts and adjustment processes discussed earlier. These
exercises, recorded in MP3 format by two native speakers (male and
female) from Seoul, give students systematic, focused exposure to
natural colloquial speech that represents the way Korean is
actually spoken in the real world.
Adults tend to take language for granted - until they have to learn
a new one. Then they realize how difficult it is to get the
pronunciation right, to acquire the meaning of thousands of new
words, and to learn how those words are put together to form
sentences. Children, however, have mastered language before they
can tie their shoes. In this engaging and accessible book, William
O'Grady explains how this happens, discussing how children learn to
produce and distinguish among sounds, their acquisition of words
and meanings, and their mastery of the rules for building
sentences. How Children Learn Language provides readers with a
highly readable overview not only of the language acquisition
process itself, but also of the ingenious experiments and
techniques that researchers use to investigate his mysterious
phenomenon. It will be of great interest to anyone - parent or
student - wishing to find out how children acquire language.
This is an introduction to Korean pronunciation for students at all
levels of proficiency. Beginners should find the information and
practice they need to cross the threshold of intelligibility in
Korean, while more advanced students will have the opportunity to
fine-tune their pronunciation and improve their comprehension. This
book focuses on the most challenging features of Korean
pronunciation. Careful attention is paid to the way in which a
sound's pronunciation can be modified in different contexts. The
first part of the text consists of an overview and chapters on
vowel and consonant sounds in Korean, adjustment processes that
modify speech sounds in different positions within words and
phrases, and the role of prosody in expressing meaning and emotion.
The practice exercises that follow are paired with the various
contrasts and adjustment processes discussed earlier. These
exercises recorded on an accompanying CD by two native speakers
(male and female) from Seoul, give students systematic, focused
exposure to natural colloquial speech that represents the way
Korean is actually spoken in the real world.
Vocabulary learning is the single most important component of
second-language acquisition. In cases where the second language is
unrelated to the learner's native tongue, this task presents
special challenges because there are typically few clues in a
word's form to assist in learning and remembering its meaning. This
book offers a solution to this problem for students of Korean. The
Handbook is the first ever "root dictionary" of Korean designed for
second-language learners. Useful for students at all levels, it
contains more than 1,500 vocabulary lists consisting of words built
from a shared root. These lists offer a unique and efficient way
for students to acquire new words. Upon encountering a word,
students can consult the lists for its component roots and discover
many other semantically related words built from the same elements.
An introduction provides an overview of Korean vocabulary and
detailed instructions on how to use the word lists. A pronunciation
guide outlines the major principles determining the pronunciation
of compounds and other multipart words in Korean.
This root dictionary of Korean for second language learners
contains more than 1500 vocabulary lists consisting of words built
from a shared root. Upon encountering a word, the student can
consult the list for its component roots and discover other
semantically related words.
This is a broad critical survey of the research literature on child
language development, providing coverage of both theoretical and
empirical issues. Covering a wide range of perspectives, this text
constructs a picture of how children acquire the syntax of English.
The first part of the book offers an overview of the developmental
data pertaining to a range of syntactic phenomena, including word
order, subject drop, embedded clauses, wh-questions, inversion,
relative clauses, passives, and anaphora. Part Two considers the
various theories which have been advanced to explain the facts of
development as well as the learnability problem, reporting on work
in the mainstream formulist framework, but also considering the
results of alternative approaches. A reference for specialists in
the field of Language acquisition, this text aims to provide an
introduction to the acquisition of syntax for students and
researchers in psychology, linguistics and cognitive science.
"Syntactic Development" presents a broad critical survey of the
research literature on child language development. Giving balanced
coverage to both theoretical and empirical issues, William O'Grady
constructs an up-to-date picture of how children acquire the syntax
of English.
Part 1 offers an overview of the developmental data pertaining to a
range of syntactic phenomena, including word order, subject drop,
embedded clauses, wh-questions, inversion, relative clauses,
passives, and anaphora. Part 2 considers the various theories that
have been advanced to explain the facts of development as well as
the learnability problem, reporting on work in the mainstream
formalist framework but also considering the results of alternative
approaches.
Covering a wide range of perspectives in the modern study of
syntactic development, this book is an invaluable reference for
specialists in the field of language acquisition and provides an
excellent introduction to the acquisition of syntax for students
and researchers in psychology, linguistics, and cognitive science.
Jeju Island, located about 30 miles southwest of the Korean
mainland, is famous for its natural beauty, dolhaleubang (""stone
grandfather"") statues, haenyeo (""sea women"") divers - and its
language, which has only recently been recognized as distinct from
Korean. This finding - still considered controversial - undermines
the centuries-old belief that Korea has a single language within
its borders and opens the door to an entirely new perspective on
linguistic diversity in East Asia. Jejueo: The Language of Korea's
Jeju Island offers both an introduction to the language and the
foundation for a wave of new research on its many unique features.
Through its comprehensive approach, the book helps establish the
importance of Jejueo to the cultural and linguistic heritage of not
only Jeju Island, but also the entire Korean peninsula. After a
brief introductory chapter on the history of the island and its
culture, the authors work their way through the language step by
step, examining its sounds, part-of-speech system, and rich
inventory of suffixes for both nouns and verbs, to which several
chapters are devoted. Carefully written to minimize technical
language and supplemented with hundreds of examples, the work is
intended to be accessible to scholars working in all fields of
Korean studies. Jejueo tells the story of a language that has been
under wraps for far too long and is now in peril. After centuries
of use as the first language of the island, only a few thousand
elderly fluent speakers remain, leading UNESCO to classify Jejueo
as ""critically endangered"" in 2010. As the first full-length
treatment of Jejueo in English, this book marks a milestone in
Korean studies and is sure to trigger extensive discussion of the
language and its place in Korean society.
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