Week - 1 |
Introduction to Linguistics: What is linguistics? How do we do linguistic analyses? Why do we study linguistics? Speech and writing. What do you know when you know a language? Creating awareness. |
Week - 2 |
The Properties of Language |
Week - 3 |
The components of language as a system |
Week - 4 |
Competence and performance; subfields of linguistics, types of grammar; language universals, linguistic creativity, arbitrariness |
Week - 5 |
Phonetics: The Sounds of Language |
Week - 6 |
Phonology: The Sound Patterns of Language |
Week - 7 |
Revision |
Week - 8 |
Phonetics, acoustic and articulatory phonetics, speech organs |
Week - 9 |
Phonemes, vowels and consonants |
Week - 10 |
International Phonetic Alphabet, diphthongs, triphthongs, place and manner of articulation |
Week - 11 |
Phonology, assimilation, dissimilation, consonant clusters, stress and intonation |
Week - 12 |
Semantics, semantic component analysis |
Week - 13 |
Lexical relations |
Week - 14 |
Meaning and reference, collocations |