Course Contents

A General introduction to Linguistics • Basic terms and Concepts in Linguistics • What is language? • Nature of Language • What is linguistics? The Components of Language Source: Teacher’s source & An introduction to Linguistics by Loreto Todd (pg 5-11) • Branches of Linguistics Source: Teacher’s source • Function of language, Design features of language Source: Teacher’s source & Language and Linguistics by John Lyons (pg 17-24) • Synchronic and Diachronic point of view in Linguistics Source: Language &Linguistics by John Lyons (pg 54-58) • Saussure’s sign theory of Language Source: Teacher’s source • Syntagmatic and Paradigmatic relationship Source: Teacher’s source & Linguistics terms and concepts by Geoffrey Finch (pg 5-7) • Langue and Parole Source: Teacher’s source Phonetics and Phonology • Organs of speech • Consonants and vowels • Manner of Articulation • Place of Articulation Source: Teacher’s source & Loreto Todd (pg 12-18). Chart in Peter Roach (pg.65) • Consonant sounds of English • Short Vowel sounds of English & exercises Source: Loreto Todd (pg 19-34). EPP pg.15-17 Long Vowel sounds of English, Diphthong & exercises Source: EPP pg.19-20, 21-23 Morphology • Free and Bound Morphemes Source: Todd pg 41-42 • Allomorphs, Derivational Morphology Source: Todd pg 42-45 • Inflectional Morphology, exercise Source: Todd pg45-48 Syntax • The Phrase • The Clause Source: Todd pg 60-65 & exercise • The Sentence Source: Todd pg 65-73 & exercise Semantics • Polysymy, Synonymy Source: Todd pg79-82. • Antonymy, Hyponymy Source: Todd pg82-86 • Idioms & exercise Source: Todd pg87-89 Psycholinguistics • Language Acquisition and Language Learning • How language is acquired, comprehended and produced Source: Hand outs •Different Theories regarding Language Learning /Acquisition Behaviorism (BF skinner’s Theory). Innateness/Mentalism (Chomsky’s theory) Source: Hand outs 1) Cognitivism (Piagets theory of human development ) 2) Interactionism (Vygotsky’s theory of language Acquisition ) Source: Hand outs Memory (retention, recall, review, three stage information processing model) Source: Hand outs & Psycholinguistics learning & using Language by Insup Taylor pg 21-23 •Development sequence of 1St Language learning in child Source: Linguistic terms and concepts by Geoffrey Finch pg 206-209 •First language learning vs second language learning Source: Second Language Acquisition (SLA) by Muriel Saville-Troikre pg 16-21