Language structure and language use : Essays /
By Charles A. Ferguson. Selected and introduced by Anwar S. Dil.
- Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 1971.
- xiv, 327 p. 24 cm.
- Language Science and National Development .
"The eighteen articles selected for this volume cover the period from 1959 to 1970."
Includes bibliogr. references
Diglossia. - Linguistic diversity in South Asia. - The language factor in national development.- Background to second language problems.- Problems of teaching languages with diglossia.- Assumptions about nasals: a sample study in phonological universals.- Linguistic theory and language learning.- Baby talk in six languages.- Applied linguistics.- On sociolinguistically oriented language surveys.- National sociolinguistic profile formulas.- Sentence deviance in linguistics and language teaching.- St. Stefan of Perm and applied linguistics.- Language development.- Contrastive analysis and language development.- Contrasting patterns of literacy acquisition in a multilingual nation.- Absence of copula and the notion of simplicity: a study of normal speech, baby talk, foreigner talk, and pidgins.- A role of Arabic in Ethiopia: a sociolinguistic perspective.- Bibliography of Charles A. Ferguson's works, compiled by A. S. Dil (p. [313]-327)