An Introduction to Descriptive Linguistics

Language -- English Consonants -- The English Vowel System -- English Stress And Intonation -- The Morpheme -- The Identification Of Morphemes -- Classing Allomorphs Into Morphemes -- Outline Of English Morphology -- Some Types Of Inflection -- Immediate Constituents -- Syntactic Devices -- Transformations -- Language And Grammars -- Some Inflectional Categories -- Articulatory Phonetics -- The Phoneme -- Phonemic Analysis -- Phonemic Field Work -- Interpretations Of English Phonemics -- Phonemic Systems -- Phonemic Problems In Language Learning -- Acoustic Phonetics -- The Process Of Communication -- Variation In Speech -- Writing Systems -- Written Languages -- Language Classification -- Some Languages And Language Families. Includes Bibliography.