Contents
Chapter 1 Language and linguistics
1 What is human language
2 What is linguistics
Chapter 2 Language unlversals
1 Semantic universals
2 Phonological universals
3 Syntactic universals
4 Absolute universals
Chapter 3 The history of English I Old English
1 Languages in Britain before English
2 Old English
Chapter 4 The history of English Ⅱ Middle English
1 The change from Old English to Middle English
2 Modem English
Chapter 5 Language acquisition and disordersChild language acquisition
2 Language development and maturation
3 Second language acquisition
4 Language disorders
5 Errors
Chapter 6 Communication
1 Saussure's model of the speech circuit
2 Shannon's and Moles' communication models
3 Btihler's organon model
4 Jakobson's model of communicative functions
Chapter 7 Phonetics
1 Artieulatory phonetics
2 Articulatory phonetics--vowels
Chapter 8 Phonology
1 Phonemes and aUophones
2 Distinctive features
3 Redundant features
4 Rules of phonology
Chapter 9 Morphology
1 Types of morphemes
2 Morphology and word-formation
3 Word classes and sentence functions
Chapter l0 Syntax
1 Introduction
2 Traditional grammar