Linguistics

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LANGUAGE AND LINGUISTICS

COURSE CODE 5 B 08 ENG

MODULE I – LANGUAGE

1. Language defined (Form and Function)

2. Language and Linguistics

Language as a scientific study

Qualities and parameters of scientific study

3. Animal communication system and human language.

Verbal Communication

Nonverbal Communication

4. Branches of Linguistics.

Sociolinguistics

Psycholinguistics

Computational linguistics

Anthropological linguistics

MODULE II – PHONETICS AND PHONOLOGY

1. Speech Organs

2. Speech Sounds

a. Classification of Vowels

 pure vowels, diphthongs, triphthongs

b.Classification of Consonants

3. Basic Principles of Phonology

a. Phone, phoneme, allophone

b. Discovery procedure (Contrast, Distribution, Free variant etc)

c. Consonant Clusters

d. Assimilation, Elision

4. Supra-segmental features

Stress, Pitch, Intonation, Juncture

5. Syllable Structure

6. Transcription

7. Articulation and Auditory Exercises

MODULE III –MORPHOLOGY AND SEMANTICS

1. Basic concepts of Morphology

Morph, Morpheme, Allomorph

2. Elements ofWord building

a. Free morpheme, Bound morpheme, (Affix)

b. Root, Stem, Word; Simple, Complex, Compound words.

3. Word Formation

4. Basic Principles of Semantics

a. Concepts of Meaning

b. Types of Ambiguity

MODULE IV: SYNTAX

1. Grammar and Usage

2. Open classes and Closed Classes (Lexical and Grammatical)

3. Phrase, Clause and Sentence.

4. Phrases and their structures

5. Clauses and their structures

6. Clause elements or Verb patterns

7. Classification of Sentences according to 1. Word order & Meaning

2. Clause structure.

8. Auxiliary Verbs – Mood and Tense

9. Analysis, Synthesis and Transformation of all