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Usama Soltan - nobody@example.net — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 22:28:49 -0400

REQUIRED TEXTBOOK

An introduction to language by Victoria Fromkin, Robert Rodman, Nina Hyams.Boston: Thomson/Heinle, 2003. A copy is available on physical reserve at the Davis Family Library.

OTHER COURSE MATERIALS
In addition to the required textbook, further readings will be assigned from some supplementary materials. These will be mainly articles or chapters from books. Many of these will be made available through electronic reserve, and links to them will be listed here as well as on the syllabus page. Some will be available on physical reserve. Currenlty, the following sources are on physical reserve at the Davis Family Library.

David Crystal's "The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language". It's a good general reference for some of the topics that we'll be covering in this class.

Language Myths, edited by Laurie Bauer and Peter Trudgill. An interesting collection of essays discussing some of the common (mis)beliefs about language.

Textbooks - Content

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