Looking at Languages: A Workbook in Elementary Linguistics

by Frommer, Paul R.; Finegan, Edward

• ISBN13: 9780495912316
• ISBN10: 049591231X
• Edition: 5th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-03-09
• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing

Summary

This workbooks is an excellent resource for students to get hands-on practice in linguistics - with sound files available on the website. It includes many exercises in many languages, including Na?vi (language created by Frommer for the movie Avatar); great variety of exercises, in progression of level of challenge; excellent data to analyze; division in to English and non-English sections; organized so it can accompany any Intro to Linguistics textbook.

Table of Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

Morphology

Keys Terms and Symbols

Solved Problem--Morphemes: Hungarian Morpheme Identification

Exercises Based on English

Lexical Categories: Lexical Categories in English

Lexical Categories: Stress and Lexical Categories in English

Morphemes: Types of English Morphemes

Morphemes: Derivational Prefixes and Suffixes

Organization of Morphemes: Constituency and Word-Formation Rules in English

Increasing Vocabulary: Morphological Processes in English

Increasing Vocabulary: English Past-Tense Productivity Experiment

Exercises Based on other Languages

Morphemes: Spanish versus Hebrew Gender and Number

Morphemes: Malay/Indonesian Morpheme Identification

Morphemes: Persian Morpheme Identification

Morphemes: Persian Morpheme Identification

Inflectional Morphology: Latin Declensions

Inflectional Morphology: Lakota Verbs

Phonetics

Keys Terms and Symbols

Exercises Based on English

Sounds and Spellings: English Consonants

Phonetic Transcription:

Reading Practice 1--Phonetic Transcription:

Reading Practice 2--English Homophone Phonetic Transcription:

Reading Practice 3--Film and Play Names

Phonetic Transcription: Reading Practice

Phonetic Transcription: Writing Practice

Phonetic Transcription: Writing Practice

Consonants and Vowels: Identifying C/V, Describing C. Exercises in General Phonetics

Describing Sounds: Communicating about Pronunciation

Consonants and Vowels: Classification and Experimentation

Consonants and Vowels: Classification Practice

Exercises Based on Other Languages

Consonants and Vowels: Hawaiian C/V Inventory

Consonants and Vowels: Wichita C/V Inventory

Consonants and Vowels: Biblical Hebrew Consonant Inventory

Consonants and Vowels: Sound Symbolism in Lakota

Phonology

Keys Terms and Symbols

Solved Problem--Phonemes and Allophones: [ç] and [x] in Irish and German

Exercises Based on English

Phonemes and Allophones: Modern English [k] and [kh]

Phonological Rules: A Phonological Rule of Old English

Syllable Structure: Constraints on Consonant Clusters in English

Morphology/Phonology Interaction: Articles in English

Morphology/Phonology Interaction: A Negative Prefix in English

Exercises Based on Other Languages

Phonemes and Allophones: Spanish ['] and [ ]

Phonemes and Allophones: Spanish [s] and [z]

Phonemes and Allophones: Hindi and Japanese

Phonemes and Allophones: [t], [ ], and ['] in Biblical Hebrew and Standard Arabic

Phonological Rules: Tokyo Japanese. Phonological Rules: Italian [s] and [z]

Phonological Rules: A Phonological Rule of Russian

Phonological Rules: Cuban Spanish and ôR-Lessö English

Phonological Rules: Mandarin Tone Change of pù and '

Phonological Rules: Voiceless Vowels in Japanese

Phonological Rules: Tones in Akan

Syllable Structure: Japanese versus English

Syllable Structure: Mandarin Chinese

Stress: Icelandic, Swahili, Modern Greek, and Standard Arabic

Morphology/Phonology Interaction: Articles in French and Arabic

Morphology/Phonology Interaction: Malay/Indonesian Morphophonemics

Morphology/Phonology Interaction: A Derived Verb Stem in Arabic

Morphology/Phonology Interaction: Articles and Pronouns in Modern Greek (or ôThe Girl or the Sailor?ö)

Morphology/Phonology Interaction: The Definite Article in Welsh

Morphology/Phonology Interaction: Vowel Harmony in Turkish

Syntax

Keys Terms and Symbols

Exercises Based on English

Sentence Types

English Clauses

Constituency and Tree Diagrams:

Constituency and Tree Diagrams: English Constituent Structure

Constituency and Tree Diagrams: English Sentence Trees

Constituency and Tree Diagrams: Structural Ambiguity in English

Grammatical Relations: English

Syntactic Operations: English Passives

Syntactic Operations: English Relative Clauses

Syntactic Operations: English Question Formation with Modals

Syntactic Operations: Constraints on Information Questions in English

Exercises Based on Other Languages

Constituency and Tree Diagrams: Spanis

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