New Horizons in Linguistics

New Horizons in Linguistics
CONTENTS
1. INTRODUCTION (Lyons)
What is Linguistics?
The Origin and Nature of Language
Some Key Concepts of Modern Linguistics
Levels of Analysis
Generative Grammar
2. SPEECH RECEPTION AND PERCEPTION (Fry)
ACOUSTIC PROCESSING IN SPEECH
Acoustic Cues in the Perception of Speech
Acoustic Cues as a Set of Relations
Plurality of Acoustic Cues in Speech
Phonemic Categories and Perception
Cue Dimensions and the Phonological System
Acoustic Decoding of Stress and Tone
Summary of English Acoustic Cues
Recognition of Vowels
Recognition of Consonants
LINGUISTIC PROCESSING IN SPEECH
Higher-Level Linguistic Constraints
SUMMARY OF SPEECH DECODING
3. THE PRODUCTION OF SPEECH (Laver)
4. PHONOLOGY (Fudge)
I
II
Ill
IV
V
APPENDIX - PHONETIC SYMBOLS
5. RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN MORPHOLOGY (Matthews)
6. GENERATIVE SYNTAX (Lyons)
Constituent Structure
Phrase-Structure Grammars
Syntactic Structures (1957)
Aspects (1965)
Current Trends
7. LANGUAGE STRUCTURE AND LANGUAGE FUNCTION (Halliday)
I. THE FUNCTIONS OF LANGUAGE
II. LANGUAGE AND EXPERIENCE
III. TRANSITIVITY FUNCTIONS: PROCESS AND PARTICIPANT ROLES
IV. OTHER TRANSITIVITY FUNCTIONS: CIRCUMSTANTIAL ROLES
V. INHERENT FUNCTIONS
VI. TRANSITIVITY CLAUSE TYPES: ACTION CLAUSES
VII. TRANSITIVITY CLAUSE TYPES: MENTAL PROCESS CLAUSES, RELATION CLAUSES
VIII. THE ERGATIVE
IX. OTHER DIMENSIONS OF CLAUSE STRUCTURE
X. MOOD
XI. THEME
XII. INFORMATION STRUCTURE
XIII. CONCLUSION
8. SEMANTICS (Bierwisch)
1. The Goals of Semantics
2. The Analysis of Word Meanings
3. The Dictionary as a System of Concepts
4. Relational Components
5. The Composition of Semantic Components
6. The Relation between Syntax and Semantics
7. The Interpretation of Semantic Components
8. Some Wider Perspectives
9. GENERATIVE GRAMMAR AND STYLISTIC ANALYSIS (Thorne)
10. FORMAL LINGUISTICS ANDFORMAL LOGIC (Fodor)
11. COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS (Bott)
I. INTRODUCTION: COMPUTERS
II. CONCORDANCES AND WORD INDEXES
III. MECHANICAL TRANSLATION
IV. DOCUMENT AND INFORMATION RETRIEVAL
V. CONCLUSION
12. THE BIOLOGY OF COMMUNICATION IN MAN AND ANIMALS (Marshall)
The Unavailability of the 'Natural History' of Language
Structure and Function in Animal Communication
'Primitive' Stages of Language
Determinants of Language Acquisition
13. THE STUDY OF LANGUAGE ACQUISITION (Campbell & Wales)
14. THE PERCEPTION AND MEMORY OF SENTENCES (Johnson-Laird)
Perception and the Surface Structure of Sentences
The Psychological Reality of Deep Structure
Memory and the Meaning of Sentences
15. WORD ASSOCIATIONS AND LINGUISTIC THEORY (Clark)
The Paradigmatic Rules
The Syntagmatic Rules
Concluding Remarks
16. SOCIOLINGUISTICS (Pride)
17. HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS (Kiparsky)
Sound Change
The Role ofLanguage Acquisition
General Conclusions
GLOSSARY OF TECHNICAL TERMS
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX OF AUTHORS
INDEX OF SUBJECTS