Introduction To Linguistics Ii

1. Explain core areas of linguistic study.
2. Apply linguistic skills to analyze language processes.
3. Discuss language and related disciplines.
4. Describe speech sounds and sound systems.
5. Explain word and sentence structures.
6. Identify and explain language problems.

13 weeks, about 48 hours in total. Yours will differ.

1. Week 1Module 1: Levels of Linguistic Study

   • Unit 1: Phonetics I · 2 hours

     Read the unit introduction to understand the scope of phonetics.. Identify organs of speech and their functions.. Explain the role of airstream mechanisms in sound production.. Describe the process of voicing and its impact on sound production.. Practice transcribing sounds using phonetic symbols..

2. Week 2Module 1: Levels of Linguistic Study

   • Unit 2: Phonetics II · 2 hours

     Describe vowels according to the parameters of their production.. Practice transcribing vowels using phonetic symbols.. Distinguish between short and long vowels, monophthongs, diphthongs, and triphthongs.. Define suprasegmental features and their role in phonetics.. Explain the use of distinctive features in phonetics..

3. Week 3Module 1: Levels of Linguistic Study

   • Unit 3: Phonology · 2 hours

     Define phonology and its basic unit of study.. Explain the scope of phonology and its relationship with phonetics.. Distinguish between a phoneme and an allophone.. Describe phonological principles for distinguishing sounds.. Discuss phonetic features of sound segments..

4. Week 4Module 1: Levels of Linguistic Study

   • Unit 4: Morphology · 2 hours

     Define morphology and the morpheme.. Describe morpheme types and their functions.. Distinguish between morphemes and allomorphs.. Identify and describe the components of the morpheme structure.. Explain the process of affixation and its types..

5. Week 5Module 1: Levels of Linguistic Study

   • Unit 5: Syntax · 2 hours

     Define syntax and its role in sentence formation.. Identify words according to word classes (open and closed classes).. Define a phrase and identify different types of phrases.. Explain the structure and components of sentences and clauses.. Classify sentences based on structure and function..

6. Week 6Module 1: Levels of Linguistic Study

   • Unit 6: Semantics · 2 hours

     Define semantics and its role in human communication.. Distinguish between sense and reference.. Identify the different types of meaning (conceptual, associative, thematic).. Describe various meaning relations at the word level (synonymy, antonymy, hyponymy).. Explain meaning relations at the sentence level (paraphrase, ambiguity, entailment)..

7. Week 7Module 2: Language and Context

   • Unit 1: Pragmatics · 3 hours

     Define pragmatics and its focus on language in context.. Explain the scope of pragmatics and its key concepts.. Describe speech acts and their types (representatives, directives, commissives).. Explain felicity conditions and their importance for successful communication.. Understand conversational implicatures and Grice's maxims..

   • Unit 2: Discourse Analysis · 3 hours

     Define discourse analysis and its scope.. Explain how to interpret discourse using cohesion and coherence.. Understand speech events and conversational interaction.. Explain the role of background knowledge in discourse analysis.. Discuss the history and uses of discourse analysis..

8. Week 8Module 2: Language and Context

   • Unit 3: Contrastive Linguistics · 4 hours

     Define contrastive linguistics and its aims.. Identify the uses of contrastive analysis in language teaching and translation.. Explain the concepts of language interference and transfer.. Differentiate between positive and negative transfer.. Analyze the vowel systems of English and Nigerian languages..

9. Week 9Module 3: Language and Psychology

   • Unit 1: Psycholinguistics · 3 hours

     Define psycholinguistics and its main concerns.. Describe the role of the brain in language acquisition and processing.. Identify language centers of the brain (Broca's area, Wernicke's area) and their functions.. Explain aphasia and its types (Broca's aphasia, Wernicke's aphasia).. Discuss theories of language learning (behaviorist, mentalist)..

   • Unit 2: Language Acquisition and Learning · 3 hours

     Explain first language acquisition and the acquisition process.. Describe second language acquisition and its differences from first language acquisition.. Understand error analysis and language transfer in second language acquisition.. Explain the concept of interlanguage and its role in L2 learning.. Discuss the Critical Period Hypothesis..

10. Week 10Module 3: Language and Psychology

    • Unit 3: Language and Machine · 4 hours

      Explain the concept of a language machine and its applications.. Understand speech synthesis and recognition technologies.. Define artificial intelligence and its role in natural language processing.. Explain the workings of parsers in analyzing sentence structure.. Discuss machine translation and its challenges..

11. Week 11Module 4: Diachronic and Synchronic Linguistics

    • Unit 1: Historical Linguistics · 3 hours

      Define historical linguistics and its focus on language change over time.. Explain the relations between languages (proto-language, daughter language).. Understand synchronic and diachronic studies.. Describe comparative reconstruction and sound correspondence.. Distinguish borrowed forms from cognate forms..

    • Unit 2: Language Change · 3 hours

      Explain language change and its various types (phonological, lexical, morphological).. Describe syntactic change and semantic change.. Understand the processes of semantic change (amelioration, deterioration, widening, narrowing).. Discuss the problems and reasons for language change.. Review the Great Vowel Shift as an example of phonological change..

12. Week 12Module 4: Diachronic and Synchronic Linguistics

    • Unit 3: Documentary Linguistics · 4 hours

      Define documentary linguistics and its goals.. Distinguish between documentary and descriptive linguistics.. Understand the concept of language endangerment and its implications.. Explain the importance of linguistic research economy and accountability.. Discuss the role of documentary linguistics in maintaining linguistic diversity..

13. Week 13Final Revision

    • Final Revision · 6 hours

      Review all modules and units.. Work on assignments.. Prepare for final examinations..