Linguistics

Andrew Radford is Professor and Head of Department of Language and Linguistics at the University of Essex. Martin Atkinson is Professor in the Department of Language and Linguistics at the University of Essex. David Britain is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Language and Linguistics at the University of Essex. Harald Clahsen is Professor in the Department of Language and Linguistics at the University of Essex. Andrew Spencer is Professor in the Department of Language and Linguistics at the University of Essex.

• Introduction; Part I. Sounds: 1. Introduction; 2. Sounds and suprasegmentals; 3. Sound variation; 4. Sound change; 5. Phonemes, syllables and phonological processes; 6. Child phonology; 7. Processing sounds; Part II. Words: 8. Introduction; 9. Word classes; 10. Building words; 11. Morphology across languages; 12. Word meaning; 13. Children and words; 14. Lexical processing and the mental lexicon; 15. Lexical disorders; 16. Lexical variation and change; Part III. Sentences: 17. Introduction; 18. Basic terminology; 19. Sentence structure; 20. Empty categories; 21. Movement; 22. Syntactic variation; 23. Sentence meanings and logical form; 24. Children's sentences; 25. Sentence processing; 26. Syntactic disorders; 27. Using sentences.