A history of the English language
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| Format: | Audiobooks Audiobook (CD) |
| Language: | English |
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Prince Frederick, Md. :
Recorded Books,
c2006.
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| Series: | Modern scholar.
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Table of Contents:
- Lecture 1. The foundations of language: brain, development, acquisition
- Lecture 2. Signs and meanings: semantics
- Lecture 3. Sounds of language: phonetics
- Lecture 4. Sound and meaning: phonology
- Lecture 5. Sound shifts and history
- Lecture 6. The rules: syntax
- Lecture 7. Words, words, words
- Lecture 8. The history of the English language
- Lecture 9. From Germanic to Old English
- Lecture 10. Borrowing and influence: Romans, Celts, Danes (Latin, Celtic, Scandinavian)
- Lecture 11. The Norman Conquest, the influence of French, and the development of Middle English
- Lecture 12. To Modern English: the Great Vowel Shift
- Lecture 13: You say soda, I say pop: dialect, variants, and the development of American English
- Lecture 14. A global language: the present and future of English.
