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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

It was mentioned as a textbook used by the guest in her linguistics studies and was the basis for her work on the Wug test. The guest relied on its descriptions of how language works when she created the Wug test.

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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...

It was mentioned as a textbook used by the guest in her linguistics studies and was the basis for her work on the Wug test. The guest relied on its descriptions of how language works when she created the Wug test.

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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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