Introduction to Linguistics

Objectives: 

• By the end of the course, students should understand the nature of language and relationships between language, society and culture
• Students should demonstrate knowledge of the basic concepts in the study of linguistics and phonetics as a basis for later study of language development and communication disabilities.
• Students should identify and use basic phonetic and phonological levels of linguistic description

Content:

• Introduction to language, society and culture
• Linguistics and the scientific study of language
• The speech mechanism and the production of sounds
• General principles of phonetic description and analysis classification (IPA)
• Introduction to the principles of phonology

Basic features of phonology in different Ugandan languages