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  • Linguistics Phonetics

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    Linguistics/Phonetics is a new module that encompasses both linguistics and phonetics. Students of English have to deal with such a module in their first year since it is of paramount importance in their preliminary stages of learning a new language to deal with linguistics and phonetics.

    They are two different but interrelated modules. However, the governmental educational policy decided to gather these modules into one module since they are interrelated. Through such a module, students learn the basic theoretical frameworks as well as get in touch with the various spheres of application of both fields. 

    Students are taught different types of topics that are related to Linguistics as; functions of language, characteristics of human language, De Saussure’s dichotomies, etc., as well as they are taught other topics related to phonetics as; vowels, consonants, diphthongs, triphthongs, etc.

    Additionally, they will get in touch with activities of application in which they with test their understanding of the theoretical notions as well as test their pronunciation concerning the learned rules.


  • Linguistics Phonetics


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  • Learning Objectives

    General objectives:

    ●To know the basic notions related to Linguistics and phonetics

    ●To distinguish between the different theoretical spheres of both fields

    ●To apply these theoretical frameworks in spheres of application

    The place of articulation of English consonants

  • Prerequisites

    To well understand the lessons, the students should:

    -Have an acceptable level of proficiency in the English language.

    -Students can write and understand an unlimited number of English sentences.

    -Understand the basic notions related to language and phonetics.

    -Differentiate between the English vowels and consonants and their functions.

  • The general outline

    Cette semaine

    • PART ONE
    • Characteristics of human languages
    • Functions of Language
    • Levels of Language
    • De Saussure's Theory of Language and Chess Analogy
    • Competence-Performance
    • The Internal/External Studies of Language
    • Linguistics-Sociolinguistics
    • PART TWO
    • The Organs of Speech
    • Stages of speech production
    • Branches of Phonetics     
    • The Classification of English Vowels 
    • Diphthongs & Triphthongs
    • The English Consonants

  • Chapter One

  • Chapter Two

  • Chapter Three

  • References

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    -Coulmas, F. (2005). Sociolinguistics: The study of speaker's choice. Cambridge: Cambridge UP.

    -Hudson, R. A. (1999). Sociolinguistics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

    -Hymes, D. (1972). On communicative competence. In J. Pride & J. Holmes, Sociolinguistics. Harmondsworth: Penguin.

    -Jacobson, R. (1960). Concluding statement: Linguistics and poetics. In T. A. Sebeok (ed.) Style in Language. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, pp. 350-377.

    -Jackendoff, R. (2011) What is the human language faculty? Two views, JSTOR.

    -Milroy, L. & Gordon, M. (2006). Sociolinguistics: Method and Interpretation. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing.

    -Roach, P. (2009). English phonetics and phonology. 2nd edition, University of Leeds.

    -Saussure, F. (1960). Course in General Linguistics. Beijing: China Social Science Publishing House.

    -Spolsky, B. (1998). Sociolinguistics. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

    -Tribus, A. (2017). The communicative functions of language: an exploration of Roman Jakobson's theory in tesol-Wardhaugh, R. (2007). An Introduction to Sociolinguistics. Blackwell Publishing: USA.