New Horizons in Linguistics

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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