Welcome!  The suggested tour of our Museum is simply to read this page from  start  to finish.   But if you like to wander, just click on a topic.   Remember, you can go back (retrace your steps) at any point by clicking BACK on your browser.

Floor Plan of the Museum

DEFINITION OF LANGUAGE LINGUISTICS ENTRANCE TO MUSEUM	You are visitor #
SPEECH PERCEPTION BRAIN ARTICULATORY GESTURES WRITING AND OTHER MEDIA SIGN LANGUAGE SPEECH PRODUCTION SOUND LANGUAGE SUBSTANCE	THE  DOUBLE ARTICULATION SIGNS SYNTAGMS / PARADIGMS THE STATISTICAL STRUCTURE OF LANGUAGE GRAMMAR  & IDIOMS SEMANTICS & MEANING LEXICOLOGY  & MORPHOLOGY PHONOLOGY &  FEATURES THE LINEARITY OF LANGUAGE LANGUAGE FORM
ANALYTIC FUNCTIONS SCIENCE MATHEMATICS & PHILOSOPHY COMMUNICATIVE FUNCTIONS INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION THEORY ANIMAL COMMUNICATION EXPRESSIVE FUNCTIONS ART SOCIALOGICAL FUNCTIONS LANGUAGE FUNCTION	LANGUAGES IN TIME LANGUAGE CHANGE LANGUAGE BIRTH / DEATH FAMILY TREES OF LANGUAGE LANGUAGES IN SPACE DIALECTS THE 30 BIGGEST LANGUAGES TYPES OF LANGUAGES LANGUAGE LEARNING LANGUAGES

Books on Language

De Saussure, Ferdinand, Charles Bally (Contributor), Roy Harris (Translator) . 1998. Course in General Linguistics. Open Court Publishing Company. ISBN: 0812690230

Ruhlen, Merritt. 1987. A Guide to the World's Languages.  Stanford University Press. ISBN: 0-8047-1894-6

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Topics to be included in the future:

Language Disorders,  Language Death,  Grammar, The Units of Language, Language learning: language acquisition in children vs adult language learning, Language Universals vs Language Specifics, Origin of Language,  Language and Thought.