目录

●1Introduction
1.1 What is linguistics?
1.1.1 Definition
1.1.2 The scope of linguistics
1.1.3 Some important distinctions in linguistics
1.2 What is language?
1.2.1 Definitions of language
1.2.2 Design features of language
1.2.3 Functions of language
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2Phonology
2.1 The phonic medium of language
2.2 Phonetics
2.2.1 What is phonetics?
2.2.2 Organs of speech
2.2.3 Orthographic representation of speech sounds — broad and narrow transcriptions
2.2.4 Classification of English speech sounds
2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 Phonology and phonetics
2.3.2 Phone, phoneme, and allophone
2.3.3 Phonemic contrast, complementary distribution, and minimal pair
2.3.4 Some rules in phonology
2.3.5 Suprasegmental features — stress, tone, intonation
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3Morphology
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Open class and closed class
3.3 Morphemes — the minimal units of meaning
3.4 Analyzing word structures
3.5 Derivational and inflectional morphemes
3.6 Morphological rules of word formation
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