Instructor's Manual For Linguistics For Non-linguistics: A Primer With Exercises

Instructor’s Manual for Linguistics for Non-Linguistics A Primer with Exercises Fifth Edition Frank Parker Louisiana State University Kathryn Riley Illinois Institute of Technology Boston New York San Francisco Mexico City Montreal Toronto London Madrid Munich Hong Kong Singapore Tokyo Cape Town Sydney Paris Copyright © 2010 Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. The contents, or parts thereof, may be reproduced with Linguistics for Non-Linguistics: A Primer with Exercises, Fifth Edition, by Frank Parker and Kathryn Riley, provided such reproductions bear copyright notice, but may not be reproduced in any form for any other purpose without written permission from the copyright owner. To obtain permission(s) to use the material from this work, please submit a written request to Permissions Department, 501 Boylston Street, Suite 900, Boston, MA 02116 or fax your request to 617-671-2290. www.pearsonhighered.com ISBN-10: 0-13-611728-7 ISBN-13: 978-0-13-611728-5 Contents Preface: To the Instructor.............................................................................. 1 Chapter 1: Introduction ................................................................................ 3 Chapter 2: Pragmatics................................................................................... 5 Chapter 3: Semantics.................................................................................... 10 Chapter 4: Syntax ......................................................................................... 14 Chapter 5: Morphology ................................................................................ 21 Chapter 6: Phonology................................................................................... 26 Chapter 7: Language Processing.................................................................... 32 Chapter 8: Language Variation...................................................................... 37 Chapter 9: Language Change........................................................................ 44 Chapter 10: First-Language Acquisition ......................................................... 48 Chapter 11: Second-Language Acquisition .................................................... 53 Chapter 12: Written Language ...................................................................... 57 Chapter 12: Neurology of Language.............................................................. 61 Preface 1 Preface: To the Instructor This Instructor’s Manual for Linguistics for Non-Linguists, 4th edition provides the following material for each chapter: Chapter Overview and Objectives; Key Terms and Concepts; Commentary on the chapter material; and Suggested Answers to Exercises. (Answers to exercises marked with a † are given at the end of the textbook and therefore are not repeated in the Instructor’s Manual. Likewise, answers to Exploratory Exercises are usually not given here, since they will typically vary depending on student research.) We hope that you will find the following suggestions useful as you use the textbook. Organizing the Course Each chapter in the theory section of the book (Chapters 2-6, Pragmatics-Phonology) is, essentially, self-contained. We have ordered these chapters in a “top-down” fashion, starting with the relatively less formal field of pragmatics and moving to the relatively more formal field of phonology. While many textbooks start with phonology, in our experience it can be overwhelming to start with an area so beset with formal notation. However, because these chapters are self-contained, you can assign them in a different order if you wish. The chapters in the applied section of the book (Chapters 7-12) rely on material covered in the theory section (especially Chapters 3-6) and therefore should not b