Need some help

>>8444148
>a free ebook on basic Linguistics
go to bookzz.org and download whatever looks good to you

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C'mon guys I know there are some of you who knows Linguistics...

>>8444166
Thanks!
do you know Linguistics? got some tips??

>>8444148
If you know nothing about linguistics you might want to try to get your hands on Language Files. It's extremely general and nontechnical and widely used in intro courses.

>>8444148
90% of my linguistics knowledge is wikipedia. Wikipedia is goat.

>>8444148
Your on /sci/ anon you won't find linguists here just an influx of hierarchal mathfags>physfags/engineerfags>chemfags>biofags.

>>8445328
There are a few on here

>>8444148
https://thepiratebay.org/torrent/4508096/TTC_VIDEO_-_Understanding_Linguistics--The_Science_of_Language

and just start with wikipedia.
proto-indo european, three main european linguistic families: romance, germanic and slavic, english is weird language becuase 1000 most frequent words are almost all germanic, in general 1/3 of english vocabulary is from german, 2/3 is from french/latin.
english pronunciation is really weird just like with french so you get stuff like spelling bees, and kinda uniquely there are about 16000 english syllables
https://www.quora.com/How-many-syllables-exist-in-the-American-English-language
http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/64506/is-there-a-list-of-syllables-contained-in-us-english
other languages like german,polish,spanish,french have just 5-6 thousand
probably because it's germanic-romance hybrid

that should get you started yea?

>>8446036
>english pronunciation is really weird just like with french so you get stuff like spelling bees
other european languages have pretty much 1:1 correspondence between writing and speech, especially spanish, italian and slavic languages, german to lesser degree but you still can learn pronunciation of whole language much faster than with english
also check out IPA

>>8444309
I use this book when I teach intro. It has a lot of flaws and needs to be supplemented by a teacher or real linguistics, but it gives a not-too-inaccurate view of the main topics.

Also, you can find a lot of "real" stuff on ebookzz

>>8444148
If you're interested in historical linguistics you should try "Historical Linguistics: an Introduction" by Lyle Campbell. You can find a pdf with a google search. It's a great introduction to the topic with tons of examples and exercises.