TY - BOOK AU - O'Grady,William AU - Archibald,John AU - Aronoff,Mark AU - Rees-Miller,Janie TI - Contemporary linguistics: an introduction SN - 9781319039776 U1 - 410 OGR 2017 24519 PY - 2017///] CY - Boston PB - Bedford/St. Martins, Macmillan Learning KW - Linguistics N1 - Previous edition: 2010; Includes bibliographical references (pages 593-609) and indexes; Language : a preview -- Phonetics : the sounds of language -- Phonology : contrasts and patterns -- Morphology : the analysis of word structure -- Syntax : the analysis of sentence structure -- Semantics : the analysis of meaning -- The classification of languages -- Historical linguistics : the study of language change -- First language acquistion -- Second language acquisition -- Psycholinguistics : the study of language processing -- Brain and language -- Language in social contexts -- Writing and language ER -