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BLOCK 2: Phonetics and Phonology

UNIT 1 Air-Stream Mechanisms – Organs of Speech – Classification and Description
of Speech Sounds
UNIT 2 Phonemes in English – Vowels – Monophthongs, Diphthongs, Triphthongs,
Cardinal Vowels – Consonants
UNIT 3 Phonology – Syllable – Structure
UNIT 4 Word Accent
UNIT 5 International Phonetic Alphabet – IPA Symbols – Received Pronunciation
and General Indian English

BLOCK 3: Morphology

UNIT 1 English Morphology – Morpheme, Allomorph and Morph – Free and
Bound Morphemes – Compounding, Affixation, Inflexion, Derivation
UNIT 2 Word Formation Processes
UNIT 3 Form Class and Function Words

BLOCK 4: The Sentence

UNIT 1 Word Order and Sentence Pattern
UNIT 2 Phrases – Noun Phrase, Adjective Phrase, Adverb Phrase, Verb Phrase,
Prepositional Phrase
UNIT 3 Types of Sentences – Declarative, Interrogative, Imperative, Exclamatory

BLOCK 5: Sentence Transformations

UNIT 1 Time, Tenses and Aspects
UNIT 2 Subject - Verb Agreement in Sentences
UNIT 3 Degrees of Comparison – Active and Passive Voice – Direct and Indirect
Speech
BLOCK 6: Syntax and Select Concepts

UNIT 1 Basic Concepts in Syntax – Kernel Sentences – Deep Structure and
Surface Structure
UNIT 2 Syntactic Models – Noam Chomsky – Phrase Structure Grammar –
Leonard Bloomfield – IC Analysis
UNIT 3 Basic concepts – Monolingualism, Bilingualism, Multilingualism

References

Abercrombie, D. Elements of General Phonetics. Edinburgh University Press, 1967.

Akmajian, A; Demers, R.A.; Farmer, A.K. and Harnish, R.M. Linguistics: An Introduction

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