Maya Honda, Wayne O'Neil

Thinking Linguistically

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"The authors skillfully engage readers in doing linguistics as a kind of scientific inquiry. An elegant demonstration of the steps in identifying patterns, formulating and testing hypotheses, and offering parsimonious descriptions and explanations.

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Thinking Linguistically is a unique and clearly written introduction to the nature of linguistic analysis and issues in language acquisition. The book is for undergraduate and graduate students in linguistics, education, and psychology.

Through twenty problem sets, based in languages not only from the Americas but from other continents as well, Thinking Linguistically :

- Initiates students to the linguists' way of observing and analyzing data by making the methods and the process of inquiry visible and accessible.
- Engages students in analyzing the breadth and depth of two phenomena in a variety of languages-the expression of noun phrase plurality and the formation of questions.
- Integrates analysis of these phenomena with results from first and second language acquisition research.
- Emphasizes the interface between phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics.
- Exemplifies how linguistic analysis can be used for the teaching of critical thinking, problem solving, and the nature of scientific inquiry in general.
- Is ideal for future language teachers for understanding acquisition and linguistic phenomena

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley & Sons / Wiley-Blackwell
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Oktober 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 488g
• ISBN-13: 9781405108324
• ISBN-10: 1405108320
• Artikelnr.: 23160029

Autorenporträt

Maya Honda is Associate Professor of Human Development at Wheelock College. Her work includes Understanding First and Second Language Acquisition (with Wayne O'Neil, 2004) and papers in Noam Chomsky: Critical Assessments (1994) and The View from Building 20 (1993). Wayne O'Neil is Professor of Linguistics at MIT. His publications include The Generative Study of Second Language Acquisition (edited with Suzanne Flynn and Gita Martohardjono, 1998) and Image, Language, Brain (edited with Alec Marantz and Yasushi Miyashita, 2000).

Inhaltsangabe

Preface. Typographical Conventions. An Introduction to Thinking
Linguistically. Problem Set 1. Plural Noun Formation in Armenian. Part I:
Noun Pluralization, or How to Talk About More than Two Dogs in Kiowa. 1.
Noun Pluralization: An Introduction. Problem Set 2. Plural Noun Formation
in English. 2. Noun Pluralization: The Role of Phonology. Problem Set 2,
Revisited: Plural Noun Formation in English. 3. Noun Pluralization:
Morphology Meets Phonology. Problem Set 3. Regular-Irregular Noun Plurals
in English. Problems Set 4. Past Tense Formation in Englsih. Problem Set 5.
Plural Noun Formation in Spanish. Problem Set 6. Plural Noun Formation in
Brazilian Portuguese. 4. The Acquisition of Morphophonology. 5. Noun
Pluralization: Morphology Meets Syntax and Meaning. Problem Set 7. Plural
Noun Formation in Nicaraguan English. 6. Noun Pluralization: The
Interaction of Linguistic Features. Problem Set 8. Plural Noun Formation in
Mandarin Chinese. Problem Set 9. Plural Noun Formation in Cherokee. 7. Noun
Pluralization: A Summary. Part II: Question Formation, or How to Find Out
Whether the Cat Is Sleeping in Tohono O'odham. 8. Merge. Problem Set 10.
Merging, Transforming, and Converging. 9. An Introduction to the Syntax of
Question Formation. Problem Set 11. WH-Question Formation in Mandarin
Chinese. 10. Syntactic Movement and Question Formation. Problem Set 12.
Yes/No Question Formation in Tohono O'odham. Problem Set 13. WH-Question
Formation in English. Problem Set 14. WH-Question Formation in Brazilian
Portuguese. 11. Question Formation: A Summary. Problem Set 15. WH-Question
Formation in Tohono O'odham. 12. Acquisition of WH-Question Formation.
Problem Set 16. Indonesian Speakers' Acquisition of English WH-Question
Formation. Part III: Constraints, or Why You Can't Say Wanna Whenever You
Wanna. 13. Syntactic Constraints on Contraction in English. Problem Set 17.
The Syntax of Wanna-Contraction in English. Problem Set 18. The Syntax of
Is-Contraction in English. 14. Contraction in English: Its Acquisition and
Related Topics. Part IV: Meaning, and -- Finally -- about Counting Dogs in
Kiowa. 15. Meaning: An Introduction. 16. Beyond Pluralization: Inversion
and Noun Modification in Kiowa. Problem Set 19. So How Do Kiowas Talk About
More Than Two Dogs?. 17. Argument Structure: The Conceptual System of
Language. Problem Set 20. Theta-Roles in Prepositions in English. On
Thinking Linguistically: Looking Back and Looking Ahead. References. Index.

Rezensionen

"The authors skillfully engage readers in doing linguistics as a kind of scientific inquiry. An elegant demonstration of the steps in identifying patterns, formulating and testing hypotheses, and offering parsimonious descriptions and explanations. Walt Wolfram, North Carolina State University

"Honda and ONeil have taught linguistics at the center and on the periphery, to grade schoolers, teachers, and graduate students: always theoretical, always understandable, always useful. These unique materials show that the study of English and of every other language can be a science accessible to all." Nigel Fabb, University of Strathclyde