LING101-08SU2 (C) Summer Nov 2008 start

The English Language

18 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 10 November 2008
End Date: Sunday, 21 December 2008
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 23 November 2008
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 7 December 2008

Description

This course introduces students to the study of the English Language, its words, sounds and sentences. It also introduces the conceptual and analytical tools which linguists use to understand how languages are constructed.

This course is designed to introduce you to the English language and to basic concepts in Linguistics. It aims to make explicit some of the properties of the language which you as speakers know implicitly.  It is intended as an introductory course and will assume no prior knowledge about how languages work.

The course provides a basis for further linguistic study including the semester one course ling 102, Language and Society, but it is also intended to serve as a stand-alone course for any student who wishes to understand more about language – a natural phenomenon which is central to being human.

The course covers the following topics:

Words  
• How words fit into phrases and sentences
• The internal structure of words
• Vocabularies

The Sounds of English  
• Phonetics:  the sounds we make
• Phonology:  the sound system of English
• Suprasegmental phonology: syllables, pitch and intonation, speech rhythm.

Sentences
• The structure of simple phrases
• The major functions in simple clauses
• Complex sentences
• How grammar changes

Restrictions

ENGL123, ENGL112, LING111

Course Coordinator

Koenraad Kuiper

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage 
Test 1 30%
Test 2 30%
Test 3 30%
Practical session worksheets 10%

Textbooks / Resources

Required Texts

Gordon, Elizabeth; Phonemic transcription workbook ; Dept. of Linguistics, University of Canterbury, 1993 (Medium: Workbook Purchase from the Course Mart Shop).

Recommended Reading

Kuiper, Koenraad , Allan, W. Scott; An introduction to English language : word, sound, and sentence ; 2nd ed; Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $710.00

International fee $2,620.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

Minimum enrolments

This course will not be offered if less than 1 person applies to enrol.

For further information see School of Languages and Cultures .

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