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An Introduction to African Languages

Author: George Tucker Childs

School: University of Nigeria, Nsukka

Department: Arts and Humanities

Course Code: LIN246, LIN301

Topics: four phyla, Phonetics, phonology, Nasal processes, clicks, Syllable structure, Vowel harmony, Consonant alternation, tone, Morphology, Non-concatenative morphology, Noun class system, Verbal morphology, Verb extensions, argument structure, Syntax, semantics, Ideophones, negation, Predicate structure, Movement, Verb focus, predicate clefting, Serial verbs, Agreement phenomena, Consecutive tense, switch reference, Logophoricity, Language typology, historical linguistics, Diachronic typology, grammaticalization, Linguistics, archaeology, Language contact phenomena, Pidgins, creoles

Language and mind ,3rd edition

Author: Noam Chomsky

School: University of Ibadan

Department: Arts and Humanities

Course Code: LIN101

Topics: Language, mind, Linguistics, philosophy, Biolinguistics

Gimson's Pronunciation of English, 8th edition

Author: Alan Cruttenden

School: Edo University

Department: Arts and Humanities

Course Code: ENG112, ENG212

Topics: English Pronunciation, language, speech, linguistics, phonetics, phonology, phonemics, spelling, speech chain, speech mechanism, speech sound, acoustic spectrum, hearing, phonetic description, vowel, consonant, phonemes, linguistic hierarchy, transcription, syllables, sound change, Old English, Middle English, Early modern English, Accent, English vowels, Diphthongal vowel glides, Diphthongs, affricates, fricatives, sonorants, nasals, oral approximants, words, word accentual patterns, connected speech, intonation, amalgam English, International English

Gimson's Pronunciation of English ,8th edition

Author: Alan Cruttenden

School: Federal University, Oye-Ekiti

Department: Arts and Humanities

Course Code: ELS101

Topics: English Pronunciation, language, linguistics, speech mechanism, speech production, speech chain, Sound qua1ity, sounds of speech, Phonetic description, vowel, consonant, Egressive pulmonic consonants, vowels, phonemes, Allophones, Phonemic systems, sound change, Old English, Middle English, Early Modem English, Diphthongs, English vowels, vowel length, English consonants, Plosives, Affricates, Fricatives, Sonorants, nasals, words, connected speech, accent, Phonotactics, Intonation, Amalgam English, International English, Pronouncing dictionaries

The Handbook of Pragmatics

Author: Laurence Horn, Gregory Ward

School: Federal University, Oye-Ekiti

Department: Arts and Humanities

Course Code: ELS101

Topics: Pragmatics, implicature, presupposition, speech acts, reference, deixis, discourse structure, information structure, non-canonical syntax, discourse markers, discourse coherence, anaphora, empathy, argument structure, semantics, lexicon, intonation, historical pragmatics, language acquisition, computational linguistics, cognitive pragmatics

An Introduction to the Pronunciation of English ,2nd edition

Author: AC Gimson

School: University of Ibadan

Department: Arts and Humanities

Course Code: ENG202, ENG409

Topics: English pronounciation, communication, speech, speech production, phonetics, linguistics, speech chain, speech mechanism, vocal cords, articulatory description, sounds, phonetic description, vowel, consonant, egressive pulmonic sounds, consonant type, vowel type, English vowels, pure vowels, Diphthongal glides, diphtongs, english consonants, connected speech, accent, intonation, stress, accentual function, international phonetic alphabet

The Oxford Handbook of Grammaticalization

Author: Heiko Narrog, Bernd Heine

School: University of Ibadan

Department: Arts and Humanities

Course Code: ENG308

Topics: Grammaticalization, Linguistic theory, linguistic Variation, corpus linguistics, language contact, semantic maps, prosody, word formation, syntax, word order change, semantic change, lexicalization, pragmaticalization, Degrammaticalization, Adverbial grammaticalization, grammaticalization of agreement, grammaticalization of passives

Expression and Meaning

Author: John Searle

School: University of Ibadan

Department: Arts and Humanities

Course Code: ENG304

Topics: illocutionary acts, Indirect speech acts, fictional discourse, metaphor, literal meaning, Referential, attributive, Speech acts, recent linguistics

Understanding Utterances An Introduction to Pragmatics

Author: Diane Blakemore

School: University of Ibadan

Department: Arts and Humanities

Course Code: ENG304

Topics: Pragmatics, Utterances, relevance, linguistics, literature, explicature, implicature

Introduction to the universe of social sciences

Author: GSP201 UNN

School: University of Nigeria, Nsukka

Department: General studies

Course Code: GSP201

Topics: social science, Anthropology, Archaeology, economics, geography, Linguistics, mass communication, political science, psychology, sociology

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