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Basic concepts of linguistic analysis; creating awareness; the components of language as a system; competence and performance; subfields of linguistics, types of grammar; language universals, linguistic creativity, arbitrariness; phonetics, acoustic and articulatory phonetics, speech organs, phonemes, vowels and consonants, International Phonetic Alphabet, diphthongs, triphthongs, place and manner of articulation; phonology, assimilation, dissimilation, consonant clusters, stress and intonation; semantics, semantic component analysis, lexical relations, meaning and reference, collocations. |