TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ferguson,Charles Albert
TI  - Language structure and language use: Essays 
SN  - 0804707804
PY  - 1971///
CY  - Stanford, Calif.
PB  - Stanford University Press
KW  - Language and languages
N1  - "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)
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