Linguistics/Further reading

General linguistics Wikipedia's article on linguistics The Language Instinct by Steven Pinker Phonetics Acoustics Signal Processing/Fourier Analysis Typology Patterns of Sounds Maddieson Ian 1984 Cambridge University Press 0-521-26536-3 Language Universals and Linguistic Typology, by Bernard Comrie Orthography The Story of Writing Robinson Andrew 1995 Thames & Hudson Ltd London 0-500-28156-4 Psycholinguistics and Language Acquisition The Prism of Grammar Roeper Thomas 2007 MIT press 0262182521 Computational Linguistics Statistical Language Learning Charniak Eugene 1996 MIT Press 0262531410 Creoles Bastard Tongues Bickerton, Derek 2008 Hill and Wang 0809028174 Evolution of Language Adam's Tongue Bickerton, Derek 2009 Hill and Wang 9780809022816 Sociolinguistics Labov, W. (2001). Principles of Linguistic Changes: Social Factors. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers. Lakoff, Robin T. (2000). The Language War. Berkely, CA: University of California Press. 0-520-21666-0 Meyerhoff, Miriam. (2006). Introducing Sociolinguistics. New York: Routledge. 0-415-39948-3 Milroy, Lesley and Gordon. Matthew. (2003) Sociolinguistics: Method and Interpretation London: Blackwell Publishing. 0-631-22225-1. (More advanced, but has lots of good examples and describes research methodologies to use.) Paulston, Christina Bratt and G. Richard Tucker, editors. 1997. The early days of sociolinguistics: memories and reflections.‭(Publications in Sociolinguistics, 2.) Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics. Trudgill, Peter. (2000). Sociolinguistics: An Introduction to Language and Society(4th Ed.). London: Penguin Books. 0-14-028921-6 This book is a very readable, if Anglo-centric, introduction for the non-linguist. Watts, Richard J. (2003). Politeness. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.978-0-521-79406-0. A sociolinguistics book specializing in the research in politeness. It's a little tough at times, but very helpful and informational.