Chapter 1 What Is Linguistics?

Chapter 2 Morphology: The Study of the Structure of Words

Chapter 3 Phonetics and Phonemic Transcription

Chapter 4 Phonology: The Study of Sound Structure

Chapter 5 Syntax: The Study of Sentence Structure

Chapter 6 Semantics: The Study of Linguistic Meaning

Chapter 7 Language Variation

Chapter 8 Language Change

Chapter 9 Pragmatics: The Study of Language Use and Communication

Chapter 10 Psychology of Language: Speech Production and Comprehension

Chapter 11 Language Acquisition in Children

Chapter 12 Language and the Brain

Appendix The Written Representation of Language

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