HOLY CROSS OF DAVAO COLLEGE

Sta. Ana Avenue, Davao City

Bachelor of Arts (AB)

Major: English

COURSE OUTLINE

I. Course No.: English 5 Credit : 3units

II. Course Title : Introduction to Linguistics Pre-requisites: Eng 3
III.Course Description :
This course provides an overview of linguistics as a discipline, its development,
levels of structure and its significance to English language teaching.

IV. Course Objectives : At the end of the course, the students can:

A. Cognitive (Knowledge) :
1. Examine the various language components which give significance
to English language teaching.
2. Make inferences based on the different theories of linguistics.
3. Cite examples to validate theories of linguistics.
4. Share to the class the ideas related to linguistics.
B. Affective (Attitude) :
1. Manifest positive attitudes towards the study of linguistics.
2. Participate actively during the discussion.
C. Psychomotor (Skills) :
1. Prepare a schematic diagram of the different theories of linguistics.
2. Write a research paper using any of the theories of linguistics.

V. Course Outline
Contents No. of Hours

A. The nature of human language

1. What is language?
a. Linguistic knowledge .5
b. What is grammar? .5
c. Language universals 1
d. Animal Languages 1
e. The origin of language 1
f. Language and thought 1
g. What we know about human language 1
B. Brain and Language
1. The Human brain 1
 2. The autonomy of language 1
3. Language and brain development 1
C. Grammatical aspects of language
1. Morphology: The words of language
a. Dictionaries .5
b. Content and function words .5
c. Morphemes .5
d. Rules of word formation .5
e. Sign language morphology 1
f. Morphological analysis 1
2. Syntax: The sentence patterns of language
a. What the syntax rules do 1
b. Sentence structure 1
c. Sentence relatedness 1
d. UG principles and parameters 2
e. Sign language syntax 2
3. The Meaning of Language
a. What speakers know about sentence meaning 1
b. Compositional Semantics 2
c. Lexical Semantics 2
d. Pragmatics 2
4. Phonetics: The sounds of language
a. Sound segment 1
b. Articulatory phonetics 1
c. Prosodic features 1
d. Phonetic symbols and spelling correspondences 1
e. The Phonetics of sign languages 1
5. Phonology: The sound patterns of language
a. The pronunciation of morphemes 1
b. Phonemes .5
c. Distinctive features of phonemes .5
d. The phonological rules 1
e. Prosodic phonology 1
f. Sequential constraints of phonemes 1
g. Why do phonological rules exist? 1
h. Phonological analysis 2
D. The psychology of language
1.Language acquisition
a..Mechanisms of language acquisition 4
b. Knowing more than one language 4
2.Language processing: humans and computers
a.The human mind at work: Human language processing 3
b. Computer processing of human language 3

Total 54 hours
VI. References:
A. Books

Ref. 1 Fromkin, V., Rodman, R. & Hyams, N (2010). Introduction to Linguistics.

Philippines: Cengage Learning Asia.
Ref. 2 Hall, C. (2005). An Introduction to language and Linguistics ( Breaking the
Language Spell). Christopher J. Hall.
Ref. 3 Poole, S.(1993). An introduction to Linguistics. Macmillan Press Ltd.
Ref. 4 Murphy, L.M. ( 2010). Lexical meaning. New York: Cambridge Press.
Ref. 5 McColl Millar, R. (2007). Trasks Historical Linguistics.w2nd edition.London:
Hodder Arnold.

B. Web Resources

Ref. 6 Kracht, M. ( n.d). Introduction to linguistics.

http://www.linguistics.ucla.edu/people/Kracht/courses/ling20-fall07/lingintro.pdf
Ref. 7 Helium (n.d ) An introduction to linguistics.
http://www.helium.com/items/1709464-introduction-to-linguistics
Ref. 8 What is morphology? http://linguistics3.webs.com/morphology.htm

C. Others

Ref. 9 Rosal, A. (Copyright Applied for) Aural-Oral Communications. Cebu City,

Philippines. University of San Carlos.