Linguistics 20: Introduction to Linguistics

Jacob Grimm (1785-1863)

Prof. Bruce Hayes  Department of Linguistics  UCLA  2101G Campbell Hall Textbook (on line) Advice (how to study, etc.) Links Sound files

Noam Chomsky (1928- )

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Textbook

I'm writing a textbook, entitled Introductory Linguistics, which will be the text for this course the next time I teach it.   It is copyrighted, but anyone is free to read it.  

If you're a linguistics teacher and would like to use it as a textbook, you are most welcome.  However, please do send me an email (address above) if you do this.  Comments and error corrections are solicited.

This is the 2010 version of this text.  UCLA students please download current chapters at the MyUCLA website.

• Bruce Hayes, Introductory Linguistics (454 pages, 2.6 mB, pdf format)

Sound files

• Sound files for an old homework you can use for practive.  Answer key included.
• Five more sound files, also for practice.

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Advice

• Linguistics 20 study hints
• Principles of linguistics problem set answers, a brief guide
• How to determine the part of speech of a word
• Sample midterm (from 2006).  Also:  Midterm answer key
• Sample final (from 2006). Also:   Final answer key
• Grading:  FAQ

Links

• The Ethnologue:  massive Web-based list of the languages of the world with basic data (where spoken, number of speakers, genetic affiliation, references) for each entry
• Word processing with free phonetic fonts (BH font information page)
• Free software for drawing syntactic trees

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Bruce Hayes's Web Page (research projects, other courses I teach)