English Words A Linguistic Introduction.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Harley, Heidi
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Newark : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, 2006.
Colección:New York Academy of Sciences Ser.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Title page
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • 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 IPA
  • 2.5 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 into Words
  • 3.7 Misparsing the Speech Stream, Mondegreens, and Allophones
  • 3.8 Allophony
  • 3.9 What We Know about Phonological Words
  • Study Problems
  • Further Reading
  • Notes
  • 4 Where Do Words Come From?
  • 4.1 Getting New Listemes
  • 4.2 When Do We Have a New Word?
  • 4.3 New Words by "Mistake": Back-Formations and Folk Etymologies
  • 4.4 New Words by Economizing: Clippings
  • 4.5 Extreme Economizing: Acronyms and Abbreviations
  • 4.6 Building New Words by Putting Listemes Together: Affixation and Compounding
  • 4.7 Compounding Clips and Mixing It up: Blends
  • 4.8 New Listemes via Meaning Change
  • 4.9 But Are These Words Really New?
  • 4.10 What Makes a New Word Stick?
  • Study Problems
  • Further Reading
  • 5 Pre-and Suf-x-es: Engl-ish Morph-o-log-y
  • 5.1 Listemes
  • 5.2 Making up Words
  • 5.3 Affixal Syntax: Who's My Neighbor? Part I
  • 5.4 Affixal Phonology: Who's My Neighbor? Part II
  • 5.5 Allomorphy
  • 5.6 Closed-Class and Open-Class Morphemes: Reprise
  • Study Problems
  • Further Reading
  • Notes
  • 6 Morphological Idiosyncrasies
  • 6.1 Different Listemes, Same Meaning: Irregular Suffixes
  • 6.2 Root Irregulars
  • 6.3 Linguistic Paleontology: Fossils of Older Forms
  • 6.4 Why Some but Not Others?
  • 6.5 How Do Kids Figure It Out?
  • 6.6 Representing Complex Suffixal Restrictions
  • 6.7 Keeping Irregulars: Semantic Clues to Morphological Classes
  • 6.8 Really Irregular: Suppletive Forms
  • 6.9 Losing Irregulars: Producing Words on the Fly
  • 6.10 Productivity, Blocking, and Bushisms
  • Study Problems
  • Further Reading
  • Notes
  • 7 Lexical Semantics: The Structure of Meaning, the Meaning of Structure
  • 7.1 Function Meaning vs. Content Meaning
  • 7.2 Entailment
  • 7.3 Function Words and their Meanings
  • 7.4 Content Words and their Meanings

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