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Particular emphasis is placed on developing students’ analytical skills through linguistic examples, problem-solving activities, and comparison of language structures. By the end of the course, students will be able to define linguistics and explain the major characteristics of human language; explain major theories concerning the origins of language; distinguish human language from animal communication; identify and classify English speech sounds using basic phonetic terminology; distinguish phonetics from phonology; identify phonemes, allophones, minimal pairs, and basic phonological patterns; identify and analyze common word-formation processes; distinguish different types of morphemes and morphological processes; identify grammatical categories and analyze basic grammatical structures; analyze basic phrase and sentence structures; and explain fundamental concepts in semantics. |