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Sharjah

MITLinguistics and Philosophy24.9

Introduction to Linguistics

planned·~168 hours total

Professor

  • Norvin Richards

Textbook

  • Linguistics: An Introduction to Language and Communication

    Adrian Akmajian, Ann K. Farmer, Lee Bickmore, Richard A. Demers, Robert M. Harnish · 7th · ISBN 9780262533263

Materials

Phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics — the fundamentals of how human language works as a system.

Syllabus

  1. Week 1

    What is linguistics? Levels of analysis

  2. Week 2

    Phonetics — articulation; IPA

  3. Week 3

    Phonology — phonemes; allophones; rules

  4. Week 4

    Morphology — words and parts

  5. Week 5

    Syntax — phrase structure rules

  6. Week 6

    X-bar theory; constituents

  7. Week 7

    Semantics — meaning composition

  8. Week 8

    Pragmatics — implicature, speech acts

  9. Week 9

    Language acquisition

  10. Week 10

    Historical linguistics; language change

  11. Week 11

    Sociolinguistics; dialects

  12. Week 12

    Computational linguistics