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SYLLABUS
SYLLABUS
Linguistics
Linguistics
Course Objectives:
Course Objectives:
• To introduce the student to the tools, branches, and history of Linguistics
• To introduce the student to the tools, branches, and history of Linguistics
• To improve and enhance student’s pronunciation and language skills
• To improve and enhance student’s pronunciation and language skills
• To improve the proficiency of the student in the correct usage of English Vocabulary.
• To improve the proficiency of the student in the correct usage of English Vocabulary.

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1 Introduction to Linguistics: Its Aspects, Linguistics: Branches and Tools, Brief History

of the Growth of Modern Linguistics: Bloomfield and Chomsky

2 Phonetics: Speech Mechanism, Places and Manners of Articulation; Classification of
Speech Sounds: Vowels, Consonants- General Introduction

3 Consonants and its Phonetic Transcription, Vowels and its Phonetic Transcription,
Diptholongs and its Phonetic Transcription

4 Clusters and Syllables, Phoneme: Detailed Study, Allophones: Allophonic variation in

English Speech: Difference between Monoptholong and Diptholong Glides;
Transcription of English Speech Sounds: From words to sentences, Syllables : Mono-

syllabic, Bi- syllabic and stress in English

5 Branches in Linguistics: Socio-Linguistics, Psycho-Linguistics, Educational
Linguistics

6 Varieties of English Cardinal Vowel System, Connected English Speech Accent,
Rhythm, Discourse, Difference in R.P. and Indian English

7 Morphology: Morph, Morpheme, Allomorph; Morphological Analysis (Identification
of Morphemes and Allomorphs)

8 Word Formation: Process, Rules, Derivation and Inflection; Transformational Rules:

Application-Tree Diagrams
9 Affixes: Prefixes, Suffixes, Infixes and Circumfixes; Grammar Traditional to

Transformational; Transformational Generative Grammar; Transformational and Phrase

Structure Rules
10 Language Teaching Analysis, Contrastive Analysis, Error Analysis: Semantic

Meaning Types: Lexical, Contextual and other Semantic Practice; Synonymy,