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LINGUA INGLESE 1
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- Use of English 1
- Listening 1
- Speaking and self-access 1
- Modulo 1A e 1B
MODULO 1A
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Introduction to English Linguistics
prof. Hugo Bowles
Lesson 1
Linguistic Areas
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Linguistics quiz – n.1
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Who speaks standard English?
 a. english people
 b. americans
 c. australians
 d. all three of these
 e. all three of these and others
 f. none of these
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Linguistics quiz – n.2
“no people = no meanings”
Yes or no?
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Linguistics quiz – n.3
“Animals cannot understand languages”
Yes or no?
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Linguistics quiz – n.4
Who might say “I wented”?
a. a small english child
b. b. an Italian student of English
c. c. an american from Louisiana
d. d. all of these
e. e. none of these
a.
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A. DEFINITIONS & AREAS
DEFINITION
AREA
The study of how you
learn your mother tongue
The study of language
and the mind
The study of language
and society
The study of how we
communicate as a species
LANGUAGE
ACQUISITION
COGNITIVE
LINGUISTICS
SOCIOLINGUISTICS
ANTHROPOLOGICAL
LINGUISTICS
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Linguistics quiz – n.5
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The same person can be a “terrorist” and a
"freedom fighter”. Yes or no?
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Linguistics quiz – n.6
 “I
scream” has the same sound as
“ice cream”
Yes or no?
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Linguistics quiz – n.7
“A single letter means a lot”.
Yes or no?
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Linguistics quiz – n.8
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Yes or no?
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Linguistics quiz – n.9
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“English does not have a future tense”
Yes or no?
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Linguistics quiz – n.10
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There are three words
 in this sentence ………
Yes or no?
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B. DEFINITIONS & AREAS
DEFINITION
AREA
The study of sound patterns in
PHONOLOGY
languages
The study of the sounds of speech PHONETICS
The study of the structure of
words
The study of rules governing
language use
MORPHOLOGY
The study of word meaning
LEXICAL SEMANTICS
PRAGMATICS
The study of how language is used PRAGMATICS
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What you will study
Phonetics and Phonology – modulo 1A
 Morphology and Syntax – modulo 1A
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Pragmatics – Lingua 2 (2 anno)
Lingua 3 (3 anno)
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Phonetics
Study of the sounds of Speech
 Articulatory
 Acoustic
 Experimental
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Phonology
The study of the sound patterns in languages
 Phonemes (vowels and consonants)
 Prosody (stress, rhythm and intonation)
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Morphology
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The study of the structure of words
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Syntax
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The study of the ways in which words
combine into units such as Phrase, Clause
and Sentence
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Semantics
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The study of the meaning of words and
sentences, their denotations, connotations,
implications and ambiguities
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Pragmatics
 The
analysis of language as it is used.
 It includes discourse analysis and
conversation analysis which you will
study in years 2 and 3
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