Recorded Books, 2006. — 108 p.About Your Professor.
Introduction.
The Foundations of Language: Brain, Development, Acquisition.
Signs and Meanings: Semantics.
Sounds of Language: Phonetics.
Sound and Meaning: Phonology.
Sound Shifts and History.
The Rules: Syntax.
Words, Words, Words.
The History of the English Language.
From Germanic to Old English.
Borrowing and Influence: Romans, Celts, Danes (Latin, Celtic, Scandinavian).
The Norman Conquest, the Influence of French, and the Development of Middle English.
To Modern English: The Great Vowel Shift.
You Say Soda, I Say Pop: Dialect, Variants, and the Development of American English.
A Global Language: The Present and Future of English Course Materials.
