Cover -- Title page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- IPA Transcription Key -- 1 What Is a Word? -- 1.1 Explaining Word in Words -- 1.2 Language Is a Secret Decoder Ring -- 1.3 Wordhood: The Whole Kit and Caboodle -- 1.4 Two Kinds of Words -- 1.5 The Anatomy of a Listeme -- 1.6 What Don't You Have to Learn When You're Learning a Word? -- 1.7 A Scientific Approach to Language -- Appendix: Basic Grammatical Terms -- Study Problems -- Further Reading -- 2 Sound and Fury: English Phonology -- 2.1 English Spelling and English Pronunciation -- 2.2 The Voice Box -- 2.3 The Building Blocks of Words I: Consonants in the IPA -- 2.4 Building Blocks II: Vowels and the IPA -- 2.5 Families of Sounds and Grimm's Law: A Case in Point -- Study Problems -- Further Reading -- 3 Phonological Words: Calling All Scrabble Players! -- 3.1 Guessing at Words: The Scrabble Problem -- 3.2 Building Blocks III: The Syllable -- 3.3 Phonotactic Restrictions on English Syllables -- 3.4 From a Stream of Sound into Words: Speech Perception -- 3.5 Syllables, Rhythm, and Stress -- 3.6 Using Stress to Parse the Speech Stream into Words -- 3.7 Misparsing the Speech Stream, Mondegreens, and Allophones -- 3.8 Allophony -- 3.9 What We Know about Phonological Words -- Study Problems -- Further Reading -- Notes -- 4 Where Do Words Come From? -- 4.1 Getting New Listemes -- 4.2 When Do We Have a New Word? -- 4.3 New Words by "Mistake": Back-Formations and Folk Etymologies -- 4.4 New Words by Economizing: Clippings -- 4.5 Extreme Economizing: Acronyms and Abbreviations -- 4.6 Building New Words by Putting Listemes Together: Affixation and Compounding -- 4.7 Compounding Clips and Mixing It up: Blends -- 4.8 New Listemes via Meaning Change -- 4.9 But Are These Words Really New? -- 4.10 What Makes a New Word Stick? -- Study Problems -- Further Reading.

5 Pre-and Suf-x-es: Engl-ish Morph-o-log-y -- 5.1 Listemes -- 5.2 Making up Words -- 5.3 Affixal Syntax: Who's My Neighbor? Part I -- 5.4 Affixal Phonology: Who's My Neighbor? Part II -- 5.5 Allomorphy -- 5.6 Closed-Class and Open-Class Morphemes: Reprise -- Study Problems -- Further Reading -- Notes -- 6 Morphological Idiosyncrasies -- 6.1 Different Listemes, Same Meaning: Irregular Suffixes -- 6.2 Root Irregulars -- 6.3 Linguistic Paleontology: Fossils of Older Forms -- 6.4 Why Some but Not Others? -- 6.5 How Do Kids Figure It Out? -- 6.6 Representing Complex Suffixal Restrictions -- 6.7 Keeping Irregulars: Semantic Clues to Morphological Classes -- 6.8 Really Irregular: Suppletive Forms -- 6.9 Losing Irregulars: Producing Words on the Fly -- 6.10 Productivity, Blocking, and Bushisms -- Study Problems -- Further Reading -- Notes -- 7 Lexical Semantics: The Structure of Meaning, the Meaning of Structure -- 7.1 Function Meaning vs. Content Meaning -- 7.2 Entailment -- 7.3 Function Words and their Meanings -- 7.4 Content Words and their Meanings -- 7.5 Relationships and Argument Structure: Meaning and Grammar -- 7.6 Argument Structure -- 7.7 Derivational Morphology and Argument Structure -- 7.8 Subtleties of Argument Structure -- 7.9 Function vs. Content Meanings: The Showdown -- 7.10 How Do We Learn All That? -- Study Problems -- Further Reading -- Notes -- 8 Children Learning Words -- 8.1 How Do Children Learn the Meanings of Words? -- 8.2 Learning Words for Middle-Sized Observables -- 8.3 When the Basics Fail -- 8.4 Morphological and Syntactic Clues -- 8.5 Learning Words for Non-Observables -- 8.6 Syntactic Frames, Semantic Roles, and Event Structure -- 8.7 Agent-Patient Protoroles -- 8.8 Functional Listemes Interacting with Content Listemes -- 8.9 Simple Co-Occurrence? Or Actual Composition?.

8.10 Yes, but Where Do the Words Come from in the First Place? -- Study Problems -- Further Reading -- Notes -- 9 Accidents of History: English in Flux -- 9.1 Linguistic Change, and Lots of It -- 9.2 Layers of Vocabulary and Accidents of History -- 9.3 A Brief History of England, as Relevant to the English Vocabulary -- 9.4 55 BC to 600 AD: How the English Came to England -- 9.5 600-900 AD: The English and the Vikings -- 9.6 1066-1200: Norman Rule -- 9.7 1200-1450: Anglicization of the Normans -- 9.8 1450-1600: The English Renaissance -- 9.9 1600-1750: Restoration, Expansion -- 9.10 1750-Modern Day -- 9.11 The Rise of Prescriptivism: How to Really Speak Good -- 9.12 English Orthography: The Latin Alphabet, the Quill Pen, the Printing Press, and the Great Vowel Shift -- 9.13 Summary -- Study Problems -- Further Reading -- Notes -- Glossary -- Works Consulted -- Index.

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