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An Introduction to Descriptive Linguistics.

H.A. Gleason

H. A. Gleason's revised 1961 edition of Descriptive Linguistics, intended for curricula in diverse environments.

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On Being with Krista Tippett

This book, used as a textbook, provided descriptions of how language works that were relied upon when creating the Wug test. It was mentioned as a significant resource in linguistics.

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my brother-in-law Henry Allen Gleason Jr. was a linguist he wrote a book called an introduction to descriptive linguistics it is the book that I read and used as a textbook as a student in linguistics...

— Episode: Jean Berko Gleason — Unfolding Language,...

Episode: Jean Berko Gleason — Unfolding Language, Unfolding...

This book, used as a textbook, provided descriptions of how language works that were relied upon when creating the Wug test. It was mentioned as a significant resource in linguistics.

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my brother-in-law Henry Allen Gleason Jr. was a linguist he wrote a book called an introduction to descriptive linguistics it is the book that I read and used as a textbook as a student in linguistics it's what I when I made the book test it was his descriptions of how language works that I relied on not something that came out of the Morphalisophical group.

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