• List of Symbols
• Preface to the 13th Edition
• Acknowledgments
• Chapter 1. Introduction. File 1.0 What is language?
• File 1.1. Introducing the study of language
• File 1.2. What you know when you know a language
• File 1.3. Other (non-essential) aspects of knowing a language
• File 1.4. Design features of language
• File 1.5. Language modality
• File 1.6. Practice
• Chapter 2. Phonetics. File 2.0. What is phonetics?
• File 2.1. Representing speech sounds
• File 2.2. Articulation : English consonants
• File 2.3. Articulation : English vowels
• File 2.4. Beyond English : Speech sounds of the world's languages
• File 2.5. Suprasegmental features
• File 2.6. Acoustic phonetics
• File 2.7. The phonetics of signed languages
• File 2.8. Practice
• Chapter 3. Phonology. File 3.0. What is phonology?
• File 3.1. Phonotactic constraints and foreign accents
• File 3.2. Phonemes and allophones
• File 3.3. Phonological rules
• File 3.4. Implicational laws
• File 3.5. How to solve phonology problems
• File 3.6. Practice
• Chapter 4. Morphology. File 4.0. What is morphology?
• File 4.1. Words and word formation : The nature of the lexicon
• File 4.2. Morphological processes
• File 4.3. Morphological types of languages
• File 4.4. The hierarchical structure of derived words
• File 4.5. Morphological analysis
• File 4.6. Practice
• Chapter 5. Syntax. File 5.0. What is syntax?
• File 5.1. Basic ideas of syntax
• File 5.2. Syntactic properties
• File 5.3. Syntactic constituency
• File 5.4. Syntactic categories
• File 5.5. Constructing a grammar
• File 5.6. Practice
• Chapter 6. Semantics. File 6.0. What is semantics?
• File 6.1. An overview of semantics
• File 6.2. Lexical semantics : The meanings of words
• File 6.3. Compositional semantics : The meanings of sentences
• File 6.4. Compositional semantics : Putting meanings together
• File 6.5. Practice
• Chapter 7. Pragmatics. File 7.0. What is pragmatics?
• File 7.1. Language in context
• File 7.2. Rules of conversation
• File 7.3. Drawing conclusions
• File 7.4. Speech acts
• File 7.5. Presupposition
• File 7.6. Practice
• Chapter 8. Language Acquisition. File 8.0. What is language acquisition?
• File 8.1. Theories of language acquisition
• File 8.2. First-language acquisition : The acquisition of speech sounds and phonology
• File 8.3. First-language acquisition : The acquisition of morphology, syntax, and word meaning
• File 8.4. How adults talk to young children
• File 8.5. Bilingual language acquisition
• File 8.6. Practice
• Chapter 9. Psycholinguistics. File 9.0. How do our minds understand and produce language?
• File 9.1. Language and the brain
• File 9.2. Language disorders
• File 9.3. Speech production
• File 9.4. Speech perception
• File 9.5. Lexical access
• File 9.6. Sentence processing
• File 9.7. Experimental methods in psycholinguistics
• File 9.8. Practice

• Chapter 10. Language Variation. File 10.0. What is language variation?
• File 10.1. Language varieties
• File 10.2. Variation at different levels of linguistic structure
• File 10.3. Factors influencing variation : Regional and geographic
• File 10.4. Factors influencing variation : Social
• File 10.5. Language and identity
• File 10.6. Practice
• Chapter 11. Language and Culture. File 11.0. What is the study of "Language and Culture"?
• File 11.1. Linguistic anthropology
• File 11.2. Language and thought
• File 11.3. Language and power
• File 11.4. Politeness
• File 11.5. Ethnography
• File 11.6. Practice
• Chapter 12. Language Contact. File 12.0. What is language contact?
• File 12.1. Language contact
• File 12.2. Borrowings into English
• File 12.3. Pidgin languages
• File 12.4. Creole languages
• File 12.5. Societal multilingualism
• File 12.6. Language endangerment and language death
• File 12.7. Case studies in language contact
• File 12.8. Practice
• Chapter 13. Language Change. File 13.0. What is language change?
• File 13.1. Introducing language change
• File 13.2. Language relatedness
• File 13.3. Sound change
• File 13.4. Morphological change
• File 13.5. Syntactic change
• File 13.6. Semantic change
• File 13.7. Internal reconstruction and comparative reconstruction
• File 13.8. Practice
• Chapter 14. Animal Communication. File 14.0. How do animals communicate?
• File 14.1. Communication and language
• File 14.2. Animal communication in the wild
• File 14.3. Can animals be taught language?
• File 14.4. Practice
• Chapter 15. Writing Systems. File 15.0. What is writing?
• File 15.1. Writing, language, and culture
• File 15.2. Types of writing systems
• File 15.3. The historical evolution of writing systems
• File 15.4. Practice
• Chapter 16. Language and Computers. File 16.0. What is computational linguistics?
• File 16.1. Speech synthesis
• File 16.2. Automatic speech recognition
• File 16.3. Communicating with computers
• File 16.4. Machine translation
• File 16.5. Deep learning in computational linguistics
• File 16.6. Other areas of computational linguistics
• File 16.7. Practice
• Chapter 17. Practical Applications. File 17.0. What can you do with linguistics?
• File 17.1. Language education
• File 17.2. Speech-language pathology and audiology
• File 17.3. Forensic linguistics
• File 17.4. Language in advertising
• File 17.5. Codes and code-breaking
• File 17.6. Being a linguist
• File 17.7. Practice
• Appendix. Answers to example exercises
• Glossary
• Selected bibliography
• Language index
• Subject index
• IPA symbols and example words
• American English consonant and vowel charts
• Official IPA chart.

"An introductory textbook to linguistics that covers phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, language acquisition, psycholinguistics, language variation, language and culture, language contact, language change, animal communication, writing systems, language and computers, and practical applications of linguistics"-- Provided by publisher.
"'Language Files : Materials for an Introduction to Language and Linguistics' has become one of the most widely adopted, consulted, and authoritative introductory textbooks to linguistics ever written. The scope of the text makes it suitable for use in a wide range of courses, while its unique organization into student-friendly, self-contained sections allows for tremendous flexibility in course design. The thirteenth edition has been revised, clarified, and updated throughout to ensure that it remains the most comprehensive and accessible introductory linguistics textbook on the market. The revised chapter on morphology includes a more thorough discussion of allomorphy and adds sections on templatic morphology, suprasegmental morphology, and morphological metathesis to give students a more complete picture of all morphological phenomena. The chapter on language and computers has been updated with new sections on deep learning, artificial neural networks, and on other areas of computational linguistics, providing readers with a better sense of current research and applications in this rapidly developing field. Other additions include new sections on syntactic non-constituents and non-generative rule systems in the syntax chapter and a complete rewrite of the creole languages file in the language contact chapter. We have also adopted the use of the singular 'they' when referring to a generic person whose gender is unknown or irrelevant. Exercises and lists of other readings have been updated throughout."--taken from back cover.

• Phonetics
• Phonology
• Morphology
• Syntax
• Semantics
• Pragmatics
• Language acquisition
• Psycholinguistics
• Language variation
• Language and culture
• Language and computers.