Lang101 Workbook. Linguistics Exercises & Activities for Starters
Overview
Lang101 Workbook offers 460 commented exercises and activities, designed for absolute beginners to the study of language or for anyone curious about (why) language matters. It features empirical observation of 20 typologically distinct languages, including English and other languages you’re familiar with. As a companion tool to our textbook The Language of Language, Part 1 of the workbook contains 360 exercises and activities corresponding to the textbook's 12 chapters (30 per chapter), and 100 synthesising cross-chapter exercises. Part 2 contains commented answers to all exercises.
Topics include the nature of scientific investigation; the structure of words, sounds and sentences; typical vs. disordered uses of language; child language, language learning and language play, as well as politeness, persuasion and humour.
Linguistics workbook designed for multilingual users of English
If you’re curious about (why) language matters, about what linguists do and how they think, and if you’re tired of introductory linguistics books that in fact introduce you to the linguistics of English, try Lang101 Workbook and its companion textbook The Language of Language, for a change.