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The Origins of Language
Introduction to linguistics and the scientific study of language; characteristics of human language; questions concerning the origins of language; the divine source; the natural sound source; the social interaction source; the physical adaptation source; the genetic source; the role of human development in language. |
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Animals and Human Language
Communication and language; characteristics of human language; displacement; arbitrariness; productivity; cultural transmission; duality; animal communication systems; comparison between animal communication and human language; attempts to teach human language to animals |
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The Sounds of Language
Introduction to phonetics; speech production; the vocal tract; voiced and voiceless sounds; consonants; vowels; place and manner of articulation; the International Phonetic Alphabet; basic phonetic transcription |
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The Sound Patterns of Language
Introduction to phonology; phonemes and phones; allophones; minimal pairs; minimal sets; phonotactics; syllables; consonant clusters; co-articulation; assimilation; elision. |
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Word Formation
Processes involved in creating new words; coinage; borrowing; compounding; blending; clipping; backformation; conversion; acronyms; derivation; prefixes and suffixes; examples of word formation in contemporary English. |
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REVIEW AND DISCUSSION |
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Morphology
Introduction to morphology; morphemes and their structure; free and bound morphemes; lexical and functional morphemes; derivational and inflectional morphemes; morphological analysis; morphs and allomorphs. |
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Grammar
Introduction to grammar; traditional grammar; grammatical categories; parts of speech; nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions, and articles; grammatical rules; descriptive and prescriptive approaches; grammaticality and language use. |
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Syntax
Introduction to syntax; sentence structure; syntactic categories; constituents; phrase structure; noun phrases and verb phrases; phrase structure rules; tree diagrams; structural ambiguity; sentence analysis. |
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Semantics
Introduction to linguistic meaning; conceptual and associative meaning; semantic features; semantic roles; lexical relations; synonymy; antonymy; hyponymy; homonyms; polysemy; metonymy; collocation. |
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Pragmatics
Meaning in context; pragmatics and semantics; deixis; reference; inference; anaphora; presupposition; speech acts; direct and indirect speech acts; politeness; contextual interpretation. |
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REVIEW AND DISSCUSSION |
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