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| RBenham Triglot Groupie IndonesiaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5645 days ago 60 posts - 62 votes  Speaks: English*, German, French Studies: Indonesian | Message 9 of 11 24 June 2009 at 2:52am | IP Logged | ||
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I should just point out that linguistics is a vast field, and there are many specialized sub-domains within it. So a syntactician, for instance, may not know or care what a "laminal postalveolar" is either.
As for diacritics and orthography, these are not really specialist terms from linguistics, and have been around a lot longer than linguistics has existed as an academic discipline. Rather, I'd say they were just part of the vocabulary of an educated English speaker. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| LtM Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 5862 days ago 130 posts - 223 votes Speaks: English*, French, Spanish Studies: German | Message 10 of 11 24 June 2009 at 6:26am | IP Logged | ||
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A good introductory book on linguistics is "An introduction to language" by Victoria Fromkin, et al. It's up to about the 8th edition by now, and is a standard text for introductory linguistics courses. I found it to be really interesting.
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| Ashley_Victrola Senior Member United States Joined 5708 days ago 416 posts - 429 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French, Romanian | Message 11 of 11 24 June 2009 at 12:56pm | IP Logged | ||
You could literally take a crash course in linguistics, haha. Not kidding. I actually am doing that. Adding another language to my studies gave me a wider appreciation for linguistics, much like you are mentioning so I am taking a summer Intro to Linguistics course for 8 weeks (I'm 3 weeks in if you care to know).
This made me laugh because its our textbook and I fell asleep next to it reading about syntax which I need to finish before class this afternoon (...better get of here then, eh?). Anyway, we already covered the first few chapters on phonology and morphology...so I can safely say its a great book and I know I'll have it forever. Very easy to read for the amount of technical terms and very well laid out in easily readable sections. It was 60 bucks on Amazon used for the 8th edition. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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