This online textbook serves to provide an introduction to the science of linguistics, its major subfields, and its theoretical consequences.
Part of the Linguistics Collection
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"Freedom" (amagi), or "liberty", taken from a clay document written about 2300 B.C. in the Sumerian city-state of Lagash.
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linguistics, descriptivism, hidden knowledge, deep structure, experimental data
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"IPA" in IPA
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articulatory phonetics, acoustic phonetics, auditory phonetics, the International Phonetic Alphabet
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phonemes, allophony, morphophonology
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Word structure tree of Dutch compounds
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morphemes, affixes, other morphemes, inflectional morphology, derivational morphology, morphosyntax, non-morphemic theories
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Parse of the sentence "John hit the ball".
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Gavagai
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Inclusive and exclusive "nous"
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Ergative morphosyntactic alignment
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phonological, morphological, morphosyntactic, syntactic
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An example Old English typeface called "Blackletter".
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An icon showing glyphs from different alphabets
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directionality, spelling systems, alphabets, abjads, abugidas, syllabaries, logographies, mixed scripts, unwritten language and new orthographies
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Multilingual sign in Nador, Morocco
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Linguistic hedge effect
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understanding of language
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Skull of Homo neanderthalensis
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Tok Pisin Wikipedia logo
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Sign language hands
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Computer and stack
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Brain
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definition of terms
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IPA chart
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