Lesson plan / INTRODUCTION TO LANGUAGE AND LINGUISTICS-I

Lesson Information

Course Credit 4.0
Course ECTS Credit 5.0
Teaching Language of Instruction İngilizce
Level of Course Bachelor's Degree, TYYÇ: Level 6, EQF-LLL: Level 6, QF-EHEA: First Cycle
Type of Course Compulsory
Mode of Delivery Face-to-face
Does the course require compulsory or optional work experience? Z
Course Coordinator
Instructor (s) Assist. Prof. Dr. FİLİZ ÇELE
Course Assistant

Purpose and Content

The aim of the course The objective of this course is to enable students to become familiar with language and linguistics, and how languages operate.
Course Content The content of the course is based on the concepts relating to the origins of language, the development of writing, the sounds, phonology, morphology and syntax of natural languages and the English language.

Weekly Course Subjects

1The origins of language: Speculations on the origins of language
2The origins of language: Basic concepts relating to the origins of language
3The development of writing: Pictogram, ideogram, syllabic writing, rebus writing, Summerian contributions, Consonants by Semitic languages, Greeks added vowels, Latin alphabet
4The development of writing: Different alphabets used by different languages
5General properties of languages: Basic concepts
6General properties of languages: arbitrariness, discreteness, productivity double articulation, cultural transmission
7The sounds of language: Phonetics, the production of individual sounds of English language and their productions
8The sound patterns of language: Phonology. Assimilation, elesion, phoneme, allophone, suprasegmentals. The Phonetic alphabet.
9Words and word-formation processes: Coinage, blending, compounding, borrowing, clipping, backformation, acronyms, multiple processes
10Midterm Exam
11Morphology:Affixes. Morphological changes. Different examples from different langauges. Morpheme, allomorph
12Phrases and sentences:grammar. Phrase structure Rules
13Phrases and sentences:grammar. Traditional grammar. Ambiguities. Prescriptive grammar and descriptive grammar
14Syntax: Parts of speech. Immediate constituent analysis, and bracketing

Resources

1.Yule, George (2010) The Study of Language. New York: Cambridge University Press.