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Linguistics An Introduction,Second edition

Author: Andrew Radford, Martin Atkinson, David Britain, Harald Clahsen, Andrew Spencer

School: University of Nigeria, Nsukka

Department: Arts and Humanities

Course Code: LIN141, LIN142

Topics: Developmental linguistics, Psycholinguistics, Neurolinguistics, Sociolinguistics, Sounds, suprasegmentals, Consonants, vowels, Sound variation, Stylistic variation, Sound change, Consonant change, Vowel change, Suprasegmental change, Phonemes, syllables, phonological processes, Syllabification, Maximal Onset Principle, Phonological features, Child phonology, Processing sounds, Speech perception, Speech production.phonological processing, Word classes, words, Lexical categories, English verbs, Building words, Morphemes, Morphological processes, derivation, inflection, Compounds, Clitics, Allomorphy, agglutinative ideal, morphological operations, Word meaning, Entailment, hyponymy, Early words, Lexical processing, mental lexicon, Lexical disorders, aphasia, Agrammatism, Paraphasias, Lexical variation, Lexical change, Borrowing words, Sentences, Complex sentences, Sentence structure, Empty T constituent, Covert complements, Empty complementisers, Empty determiners, Yes–no questions, Syntactic variation, Children’s sentences, Sentence processing, Null Subject Parameter, Children’s nominals, Presuppositions, Relevance Theory, Context, coherence, Syntactic disorders, Agrammatism, Paragrammatism, Specific Language Impairment

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

New horizons in communication skills

Author: JC Ogbodo, EJ Otagburuagu, CL Ngonebu, CU Ogbuehi, LC Ogenyi

School: University of Nigeria, Nsukka

Department: General studies

Course Code: GSP101

Topics: communication skills, Language, study skills, note taking, vocabulary development, word choice, english language registers, listening skills, phonetics, phonology, oral communication, human communication, communication, social interaction, reading, reading techniques, reading strategies, research methods, research writing, examination techniques

Key point summary on GSP101 (The Use of English I)

Author: Ekene Ugwuanyi

School: University of Nigeria, Nsukka

Department: General studies

Course Code: GSP101

Topics: Use of English, Language, varieties of english, vocabulary development, English language registers, listening skills, listening, listening comprehension, term paper writing, research techniques, note-taking techniques, phonetics, phonology, chronemics, meta-talk, verbal communication, reading comprehension, social interaction, revision, examination techniques

Introduction to Linguistics 1

Author: Christine Ofulue, Mfon Brownson Ekpe

School: National Open University of Nigeria

Department: Arts and Humanities

Course Code: LIN111

Topics: Linguistics, Human Language nature, sign language, human language, animal communication, Linguistic Knowledge, language evolution, culture, language varieties, Phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, Macro-Linguistics, Sociolinguistics, Historical Linguistics, Mathematical Linguistics, Ethnolinguistics, Psycholinguistics, Computational Linguistics, Clinical Linguistics

Introduction to Linguistics 2

Author: Christine Ofulue, Eno-Abasi Urua

School: National Open University of Nigeria

Department: Arts and Humanities

Course Code: LIN112

Topics: Linguistics, phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, Discourse Analysis, Contrastive Linguistics, Psycholinguistics, learning, Language Acquisition, Diachronic Linguistics, Synchronic Linguistics, Historical Linguistics, Language Change, Documentary Linguistics, Orthography, Articulatory Phonetics, Organs of Speech, Air Stream Mechanisms, voicing, Sound Segments, consonants, vowels, Suprasegments, Morpheme

Introduction to Syntactic Models

Author: BA Okolo

School: National Open University of Nigeria

Department: Arts and Humanities

Course Code: ENG221

Topics: Syntactic Models, language structure, English syntax, syntax analysis, Traditional Grammar, Traditional Grammar critique, Finite State Grammar, Phrase Structure Grammar, lexicon, phonology, syntax, semantics, Syntactic Component, Syntactic Rules, Parts of Speech, parsing, Concatenation, words, words relationship

English Morphology

Author: Harrison Adeniyi

School: National Open University of Nigeria

Department: Arts and Humanities

Course Code: ENG226

Topics: English Morphology, English Plural Morpheme, Past Tense Morpheme, Phonology, Syntax, Lexis, Morphological Parsing, Lexicon, Morphological Processes, Clipping, Affixation, Borrowing, Blending, Stress shift, Conversion, Compounding, Back-Formation, Coinage, Acronym Reduplication, Nominalization, Free Morpheme, Bound Morpheme, Inflectional Bound Morpheme, Derivational Bound Morpheme, word, group, clause, sentence, word classes, nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions, pronouns, conjunctions, Interjections, Exclamations, Morpho-syntactic Agreement nature, Morpholexical Operations, Morpho-syntactic Operations, Lexical Types

African American English

Author: Lisa Green

School: National Open University of Nigeria

Department: Arts and Humanities

Course Code: ENG313

Topics: African American English, lexicons, lexicon structures, slang, Aspectual markers, verbal markers, Preverbal markers, phonology, Final consonant sounds, Devoicing, sound patterns, phonological patterns, speech events, verbal strategies, nonverbal communication expressions

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