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Gleason, Henry A. 1917-

An introduction to descriptive linguistics / Descriptive linguistics H. A. Gleason, Jr. - Rev. ed. - New York, : Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1961. - 503 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

ISBN: 0030104653 9780030104657

LCCN: 61008588

Subjects--Topical Terms:
English language--Phonetics.
Language and languages.
Phonetics.
Language.

Subjects--Index Terms: English language Phonetics Language and languages

LC Class. No.: PE1135 / .G59 1961

Dewey Class. No.: 421.5