P. H. Matthews
Auteur van Linguistics: A Very Short Introduction
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P. H. Matthews is Emeritus Professor of Linguistics and Fellow of St John's College, University of Cambridge
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- Officiële naam
- Matthews, Peter Hugoe
- Geboortedatum
- 1934
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After a few false starts due to popular science approaches to linguistics, this was exactly that book i was looking for. it's maybe a two hour read, but covers everything from linguistic genealogy to parsing to the shapes your throat needs to warp into to make any of the sound we subconsciously make thousands of times a day. Highly recommended.
Good, readable introduction to the subject and a tour round some of its varied aspects. Definitely whetted my appetite for a deeper treatment.
Good, readable introduction to the subject and a tour round some of its varied aspects. Definitely whetted my appetite for a deeper treatment.
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Speech is a lot more complicated than I first thought, I have a renewed appreciation for what my mouth does naturally every day. It also raises the question of what separates a language and a dialect of a language, since ultimately most languages have common ancestors.
At the end it recommends some other books to further one's education on linguistics. I'm going to check out a few that sounds interesting.… (meer)