LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS
                         BA ENGLISH
                           V SEMESTER
                          CORE COURSE
                        (2011 Admission)
                     UNIVERSITY OF CALICUT
                    SCHOOL OF DISTANCE EDUCATION
                CALICUT UNIVERSITY P.O. MALAPPURAM, KERALA, INDIA -673635
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                                     SCHOOL OF DISTANCE EDUCATION
          UNIVERSITY OF CALICUT
          SCHOOL OF DISTANCE EDUCATION
          STUDY MATERIAL
          BA ENGLISH
          (2011 Admission)
          V SEMESTER
          CORE COURSE
           LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS
          Prepared by:             Sri. Sreekumar. P.
                                   Lecturer in English
                                   S.V. College of Advanced Studies
                                   Cheruvannur,
                                   Calicut.
          Scruitnised by:          Dr. M.A Sajitha
                                   Assistant Professor,
                                   Centre for Advanced Studies and Research in English
                                   Farook College, Calicut – 673632.
          Layout & Settings:       Computer Cell, SDE
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                                                          CONTENT
                         1. THE BEGINNINGS
                                      Definitions
                                      Human Language and Animal Language
                                      Theories of Language Origin
                                      Speech and Writing
                                      Origins of the writing Systems
                         2. WHAT IS LINGUISTICS
                                      The Traditional Approaches
                                      Modern Linguistics
                                      Branches of Linguistics
                         3.   PHONETICS AND PHONOLOGY
                                      The speech Mechanism
                                      Vowels- Cardinal Vowels and English Vowels
                                      Diphthongs in English
                                      Consonants in English
                                      The syllable
                                      Suprasegmentals
                                      Received Pronunciation
                         4.   INTRODUCTION TO GRAMMAR
                                      Morphemes
                                      Word Formation in English
                                      Syntax in English
                                      Semantics.
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