1Chapter 1. The Sounds of Language
416.2 The data: milestones in child language development
21.1 Articulatory phonetics
426.3 Explaining the data
31.2 Suprasegmental
436.4 Summary
41.3 Acoustic Phonetics
446.5 Question Bank
51.4 Phonology
45Chapter 7. Language and the Brain
61.5 Summary
467.1 The biology of the brain
71.6 Question Bank
477.2 Questions about the biology of language
8Chapter 2. Words and their Parts
487.4 Methods in the study of the biology of language
92.1 What is a word?
497.5 Evidence and Explanations
102.2 Morphology: The study of word structure
507.6 Summary
112.3 Some Morphological Operations of the World’s Languages
517.7 Question Bank
122.5 Summary
52Chapter 8. Language and Change
132.6 Question Bank
538.1 Language Change
14Chapter 3. The Structure of Sentences
548.2 Causes of Language Change
153.1 Poverty of the stimulus
558.3 Kinds of Language Change
163.3 Grammars are finite; language is not
568.4 Mechanisms of language change
173.4 Restrictions
578.5 Linguistic reconstruction and language families
183.5 Differences in syntax across languages
588.6 Summary
193.6 Functional syntax
598.7 Question Bank
203.7 Summary
60Chapter 9. Dialect Variation
213.8 Question Bank
619.1 The nature of dialect variation
22Chapter 4. Meaning
629.2 Levels of dialect variation
234.1 Speaker’s meaning and semantic meaning
639.3 Types of dialect variation
244.2 Semantic
649.4 Age-based variation and language change
254.3 Pragmatics 1: meaning and context
659.5 The fate of dialect variation
264.4 Pragmatics 2: meaning and the intention to communicate
669.6 Summary
274.5 Philosophical issues
679.7 Question Bank
284.6 Summary
68Chapter 10. Language and Culture
294.7 Question Bank
6910.1 Culturally influenced aspects of language
30Chapter 5. Discourse
7010.3 Cross-cultural miscommunication
315.1 Language use above and beyond the sentence
7110.4 Politeness and interaction
325.2 Data: language use in everyday life
7210.5 High-involvement and high-considerateness styles
335.3 Spoken Discourse
7310.6 The ritual nature of the conversation
345.4 Written Discourse
7410.7 Language and gender
355.5 Language Functions
7510.8 Complementary schizogenesis
365.6 Planes of Discourse
7610.9 Language and cultural relativity
375.7 Summary
7710.10 Summary
385.8 Question Bank
7810.11 Question Bank
39Chapter 6. Child Language Acquisition
79Glossary
406.1Gathering data on language acquisition
