The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the Language Sciences
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The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the Language Sciences

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The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the Language Sciences

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Have you lost track of developments in generative linguistics, finding yourself unsure about the distinctive features of minimalism? Would you like to know more about recent advances in the genetics of language, or about right hemisphere linguistic operation? The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the Language Sciences addresses these issues, along with hundreds of others. It includes basic entries for those unfamiliar with a given topic and more specific entries for those seeking more specialized knowledge. It incorporates both well-established findings and cutting-edge research and classical approaches and new theoretical innovations. The volume is aimed at readers who have an interest in some aspect of language science but wish to learn more about the broad range of ideas, findings, practices, and prospects that constitute this rapidly expanding field, a field arguably at the center of current research on the human mind and human society.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. THE CAMBRIDGE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE LANGUAGE SCIENCES
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. GENERAL EDITOR
  6. Dedication
  7. CONTENTS
  8. ENTRIES
  9. A NOTE ON CROSS-REFERENCES AND THE ALPHABETIZATION OF THE ENTRIES
  10. PREFACE: ON THE VERY IDEA OF LANGUAGE SCIENCES
  11. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  12. 1: LANGUAGE STRUCTURE IN ITS HUMAN CONTEXT: NEW DIRECTIONS FOR THE LANGUAGE SCIENCES IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY
  13. 2: THE PSYCHOLOGY OF LINGUISTIC FORM
  14. 3: THE STRUCTURE OF MEANING
  15. 4: SOCIAL PRACTICES OF SPEECH AND WRITING
  16. 5: EXPLAINING LANGUAGE: NEUROSCIENCE, GENETICS, AND EVOLUTION
  17. 6: ACQUISITION OF LANGUAGE
  18. 7: ELABORATING SPEECH AND WRITING: VERBAL ART
  19. THE CAMBRIDGE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE LANGUAGE SCIENCES
  20. CONTRIBUTORS
  21. INDEX