語言導論（簡體書）

《外教社英語類專業核心課程系列：語言導論》為語言學經典教材，已出到第十版。書中對語言的產生、語言的音、形、義、語言的發展、分類、語法研究、語言與社會，語言與認知，語言與計算機模擬語言等都有經典的篇章介紹。

VICTORIA FROMKIN：received her bachelor's degree in economics from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1944 and her M.A. and Ph.D. in linguistics from the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1963 and 1965, respectively. She was a member of the faculty of the UCLA Department of Linguistics from 1966 until her death in 2000, and served as its chair from 1972 to 1976. From 1979 to 1989 she served as the UCLA Graduate Dean and Vice Chancellor of Graduate Programs. She was a visiting professor at the Universities of Stockholm, Cambridge, and Oxford. Professor Fromkin served as president of the Linguistics Society of America in 1985, president of the Association of Graduate Schools in 1988, and chair of the Board of Governors of the Academy of Aphasia. She received the UCLA Distinguished Teaching Award and the Professional Achievement Award, and served as the U.S. Delegate and a member of the Executive Committee of the International Permanent Committee of Linguistics (CIPL). She was an elected Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the New York Academy of Science, the American Psychological Society, and the Acoustical Society of America, and in 1996 was elected to membership in the National Academy of Sciences. She published more than one hundred books, monographs, and papers on topics concerned with phonetics, phonology, tone languages, African languages, speech errors, processing models, aphasia, and the brain/mind/language interface--all research areas in which she worked.

Preface
About the Authors

CHAPTER 1 What Is Language?
Linguistic Knowledge
Knowledge of the Sound System
Knowledge of Words
Arbitrary Relation of Form and
Meaning
The Creativity of Linguistic
Knowledge
Knowledge of Sentences and
Nonsentences
Linguistic Knowledge and
Performance
What IsGrammar?
Descriptive Grammars
Prescriptive Grammars
Teaching Grammars
Universal Grammar
The Development of Grammar
Sign Languages： Evidence for
Language Universals
What Is Not （Human） Language
The Birds and the Bees
Can Animals Learn Human
Language?
Language and Thought
Summary
References for Further Reading
Exercises

CHAPTER 2 Morphology： The Words of Language
Content Words and Function Words
Morphemes： The Minimal
Units of Meaning
The Discreteness of Morphemes
Bound and Free Morphemes
Prefixes and Suffixes
Infixes
Circumfixes
Roots and Stems
Bound Roots
Rules of Word Formation
Derivational Morphology
Inflectional Morphology
The Hierarchical Structure of Words
Rule Productivity
Exceptions and Suppletions
Lexical Gaps
Other Morphological Processes
Back-Formations
Compounds
"Pullet Surprises"
Sign Language Morphology
Morphological Analysis： Identifying
Morphemes
Summary
References for Further Reading
Exercises
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Chapter 3 Syntax： The Sentence Patterns of Language
Chapter 4 The Meaning of Language
Chapter 5 Phonetics： The Sounds of Language
Chapter 6 Phonology： The Sound Patterns of Language
Chapter 7 Language in Society
Chapter 8 Language Change： The Syllables of Time
Chapter 9 Language Acquisition
Chapter 10 Language Processing and the Human Brain
Chapter 11 Computer Processing of Human Language
Chapter 12 Writing： The ABCs of Language

Glossary
Index