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The LSA has a wide range of resources available to various audiences and works in partnership with many other organizations to promote resources for the entire linguistics community.
For Students
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by Frederick J. Newmeyer |
To study linguistics is to gain a greater understanding of a fundamental part of what it means to be human. Linguistics is a scientific field and an academic discipline that has both theoretical and practical applications. |
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by Donald Freeman |
by Edward Finegan |
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by Morris HalleIdentifying WordsWhen we speak we say words and when spoken to we hear words. In normal discourse, however, we do not separate---the---words---by---short---pauses, but rather run one word into the next. Yet in spite of this we still hear utterances as composed of discrete words. Why should that be so? |
by William Bright
When we talk about 'language', sometimes we mean speech (spoken language), sometimes writing (written language). How are they different? Of course, speech is spoken and heard, while writing is written and read. But there are many other differences: |