- INTRODUCTION TO THE COURSE
- What is Linguistics?
- Animal Communication: Interspecies Communication and Intraspecies Communication
- Human Communication: Properties of human language, Systems of human communication (speech, writing, and gesture)
- Human Communication (Continued): Non-linguistic Human Communication
- Phonetics: The Sounds of the Language
- Phonology (The Sound Systems or Pattern of Language): Phonemes and allophones, Phonemic system of transcription (IPA), Phonemic features
- Phonology (Continued): Levels of representation, Phonological rules and Phonological process, Syllables and suprasegmentals
- MID-SEMESTER TEST
- Morphology (Words Formation): Morphemes and allomorphs, Words formation process
- Syntax (The Sentences Patterns): Generative grammar, Deep – surface structure, Structural ambiguity
- Semantics: The Study about Meaning
- Pragmatics: Language and Context
- Sociolinguistics (Language and Society): Language in society, Language Variation
- Psycholinguistics: Language and the brain, language acquisition (child language development)
- SEMESTER TEST