This chapter reviews available information on the phonetics and phonology of indigenous language bilinguals published in the last few decades, focusing on both of the bilinguals’ languages, the ...

The Department of World Languages and Literatures at Western Michigan University offers various courses in linguistics. Linguistics is often called "the science of language," the study of the human ...

This book is the first typological study of these languages, which are comprised of around 375 living and extinct varieties. They are an important object of study because of their typological ...

In order to speak a language as adults do, children need to have acquired five areas of linguistic competence: Phonology, Lexis, Semantics, Grammar and Pragmatics. Phonological development is the ...

Linguistics is the science of language. It is the subject whose practitioners devote their energy to understanding why human language is the way it is. They study the history, acquisition, structure, ...