Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 Studying the human language faculty -- 1.1 Linguistics and the mind/brain -- 1.2 Linguistics as history -- 1.3 Linguistics as the study of E-language -- 1.4 Linguistics as the study of I-language -- 2 Language as a mental organ -- 2.1 We know more than we learn -- 2.1.1 Two grammatical puzzles -- 2.1.2 Where does this knowledge come from? -- 2.2 The nature of grammars -- 2.3 Back to the puzzles -- 2.4 The acquisition problem -- 2.4.1 The poverty of the stimulus -- 2.4.2 The analytical triplet -- 2.4.3 Real-time acquisition of grammars -- 2.5 Conclusion -- 3 Syntax -- 3.1 The emergence of syntax within linguistics -- 3.2 Successive merger and deletion -- 3.2.1 Delete that -- 3.2.2 Deleting copies -- 3.2.3 Incorporating deleted items -- 3.2.4 Understanding some diversity -- 3.3 Case -- 3.3.1 Morphological case -- 3.3.2 Case theory -- 3.3.3 Links between morphological case and abstract Case -- 3.4 Conclusion -- 4 Sound patterns in language -- 4.1 Phonetics as theory -- 4.2 Phonology: language-particular structure -- 4.2.1 Phonological representations -- 4.2.2 Relating phonological and phonetic form -- 4.2.3 Morphophonemic representations -- 4.3 Morphophonemics and I-language -- 5 Describing linguistic knowledge -- 5.1 Phonological knowledge as it appears in borrowing -- 5.2 Can rules express phonological knowledge? -- 5.3 Constraint-based theories of phonological knowledge -- 5.3.1 Constraints vs. rules: patterns vs. effects -- 5.3.2 An example: voice assimilation -- 5.4 The extension of constraint-based description -- 6 Phonetics and the I-linguistics of speech -- 6.1 Representations and the study of sound structure -- 6.2 A linguistic basis for phonetic representation -- 6.2.1 Measurable but "unintended" effects -- 6.2.2 Intended effects hidden from observation.

6.2.3 Discreteness of phonetic dimensions -- 6.2.4 Timing effects -- 6.3 Speech microprosody: a research program -- 6.4 Conclusion -- 7 Morphology -- 7.1 The lexicon -- 7.2 Words and "morphemes" -- 7.2.1 Monotonicity in word formation -- 7.2.2 The solidarity of form and content -- 7.2.3 Directionality in word formation -- 7.3 Productivity -- 7.4 Conclusions about lexical organization -- 8 Language change -- 8.1 Long-term directionality in the twentieth century -- 8.2 Grammars and time -- 8.3 English auxiliary verbs -- 8.4 Syntactic effects of the loss of case -- 8.5 Chaos -- 9 "Growing" a language -- 9.1 Principles of Universal Grammar: active early -- 9.2 New phenomena -- 9.3 Experimental technique -- 9.4 Nature of the trigger -- 9.5 Acquiring sound patterns -- 9.5.1 Children's early knowledge -- 9.5.2 Birds' development of song -- 9.6 Conclusion -- 10 The organic basis of language -- 10.1 Only humans have language organs -- 10.2 Language is a function of the brain -- 10.2.1 Language localization in the brain -- 10.2.2 Studying the functional anatomy of language -- 10.3 Language is a particular faculty -- 10.4 Conclusions -- References -- Index.