An introduction to descriptive linguistics / H. A. Gleason, Jr.

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.