TY - BOOK AU - O'GRADY, Willam AU - Archibad, John TI - Contemporary linguistics : An Introduction SN - 9780321714510 U1 - 410 PY - 2012/// CY - Toronto, Ontorio PB - Pearson Canada Inc KW - Linguistics N1 - Previous edition: 2010; Language : a preview -- Phonetics : the sounds of language -- Phonology : contrasts and patterns -- Morphology : the analysis of word structure -- Syntax : the analysis of sentence structure -- Semantics : the analysis of meaning -- The classification of languages -- Historical linguistics : the study of language change -- First language acquistion -- Second language acquisition -- Psycholinguistics : the study of language processing -- Brain and language -- Language in social contexts -- Writing and language ER -