00000cam a22000004a 4500 UP-1685675941123681089 Buklod 20071009080141.0 a r |||| u| ta 071009s xx d r |||| u| 0804707804 DLC DLC DLC P 27 F47 Ferguson, Charles Albert 1921- 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. Language science and national development "The eighteen articles selected for this volume cover the period from 1959 to 1970." Includes bibliographies. 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) Language and languages. FO UPTAC UPTAC P 27 F47 Book