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