A Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics (Language Library)

by David Crystal (Editor)

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  1991

  $3.25

  This revised and updated edition of the dictionary adds around 300 new words or senses which have developed in linguistics during the 1980s, chiefly in relation to the newer models of linguistic theory, including a full account of the terminology of government-binding theory. Special attention is paid to recent phonological theories, such as metrical phonology, and to pragmatics.

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  Paperback
  1996

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  Completely revised and updated in its fourth edition, A Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics is the standard single-volume reference for its field.The fourth edition incorporates new words or senses which have developed in linguistics during the 1990s. Some 15 per cent larger than the preceding edition in its coverage, the dictionary contains new aspects of linguistic theory and research, including the developing terminology of principles and parameter theory in syntax and of the minimalist program: non-linear phonology: contemporary semantics: and speech recognition and synthesis, with associated acoustics terminology.