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Preface to the UK second edition Acknowledgements List of technical abbreviations Chapter 1: Language: A Preview Chapter 2: Phonetics: The Sounds of Language Chapter 3: Phonology: The Function and Patterning of Sounds Chapter 4: Morphology: The Analysis of Word Structure Chapter 5: Syntax: The Analysis of Sentence Structure Chapter 6: Semantics: The Analysis of Meaning Chapter 7: Cognitive Grammar Chapter 8: Historical Linguistics: The Study of Language Change Chapter 9: The Classification of Languages Chapter 10: First Language Acquisition Chapter 11: Second Language Acquisition Chapter 12: Psycholinguistics: The Study of Language Processing Chapter 13: Brain and Language Chapter 14: Language in Social Contexts Chapter 15: Writing and Language Chapter 16: Animal Communication Chapter 17: Computational Linguistics Glossary Sources Language Index Index