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Intonation, 2nd edition

Author: Alan Cruttenden

School: National Open University of Nigeria

Department: Arts and Humanities

Course Code: EBG141

Topics: Intonation, stress, accent, word-stress, English word-stress, Rhythm, Prosodic hierarchies, English nuclear tones, Pre-nuclear pitch accents, Contrastivity, comparative intonation, Dialectal variation, British English, Cross-linguistic comparisons, Comparative intonation-groupings, Declaratives, Pre-nuclear accents, Intonational change, Intonation acquisition

Introduction to Phonetics & Phonology

Author: Omolara Daniel

School: National Open University of Nigeria

Department: Arts and Humanities

Course Code: ENG241

Topics: Phonetics, Phonology, Organs of Speech, Speech Sounds, speech Production Processes, Sound Patterning, Phonological System, Phonological Structure, tone, intonation, Syllable Structure, syllable Juncture, Accentuation, Stress, Rhythmic Patterns, letters, Sound Articulation

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

English Phonetics and Phonology, 2nd edition

Author: Philip Carr

School: National Open University of Nigeria

Department: Arts and Humanities

Course Code: EBG141

Topics: English Phonetics, English Phonology, Consonants, Airstream, Articulation, Secondary Articulation, Affricates, Nasal Stops, vowels, Primary Cardinal Vowels, short vowels, Long Vowels, Diphthongs, Phonemic Principle, Linguistic Knowledge, phoneme, Allophones, English Phonemes, English Consonant Phonemes, English Vowel Phonemes, English Syllable Structure, Language-Specific Phonotactics, Syllabic Consonants, Phonotactics, Syllable-Based Generalizations, Morphological Structure, Syllable Structure, Resyllabification, English Word Stress, Compound Words, English Intonation, Tonic Syllables, Tones, Intonation Phrases, Tonic Placement, Graphophonemics, Spelling–Pronunciation Relations, Vowel Graphemes, Consonant Graphemes, English accent variation, British Accents, Southern Hemisphere Accents, American Accents, Sound Recordings

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