A Linguistics Workbook, 4th Edition

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4 Chart of Distinctive Features Sonorant consonants and glides: (-syllabic, +sonorant) Consonantal + + + + Nasal ++++ Lateral - ...

Vowels: (+syllabic, -consonantal, +sonorant) High + + + + ++--- - - - - - Low ---- ----- - - +/- + + Back** - - + - +++ + - + -+ ...

5 Some Phrase Structure Rules for English For discussion of phrase structure rules, see Linguistics, chapter 5. S -+ NP (Aux) V ...

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6 The Message Model of Linguistic Communication The Message Model of linguistic communication may be described as follows: A spe ...

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7 Major Moods Expressions of a language can be used to perform the following speech acts: Questioning Stating, promising, threa ...

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8 Index of Languages Language Chinese Copala Trique Dy irbal Finnish French German Irish Japanese Korean Nahuatl Navajo Russian ...

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Bibliography Akrnajian, A., R. A. Demers, A. K. Farmer, and R. M. Harnish. 2001. Linguistics: An introduction to language and co ...

Trager, C. L., and H. L. Smith, Jr. 1957. An outline of English structure. Studies in Linguistics, Occasional Papers 3. Reprinte ...