Welcome to Introduction to Linguistics, a course covering the five main areas of analysis. None of these topics go into too much depth, but form a solid basis for follow-up courses that are a little more rigorous. If you have any questions or suggestions, please email them to contact@trevtutor.com
Lectures
Syntax – Word Order, Word Classes, Prescriptive vs Descriptive
Syntax – Constituency Tests
Syntax – Phrase Structure Rules, Specifiers, Complements, Tree Structures
Semantics – Ambiguity, Entailment, Paraphrase, and Contradictions
Semantics – Gricean Maxims, Implicature, and Presupposition
Semantics – Theta Roles
Morphology – Free and Bound Morphemes, Affixes
Morphology – Derivational and Inflectional Morphemes, Morphological Changes
Morphology – Clipping, Blending, Backformation, Acronyms, and Onomatopoeia
Phonetics – International Phonetic Alphabet, Sound Classes, Articulatory Phonetics
Phonetics – Consonants: Production and Transcription
Phonetics – Vowels: Production and Transcription
Phonology – Minimal Pairs, Phonemes, and Allophones
Phonology – Syllable Structure and Sonoroity Hierarchy
Phonology – Features
Phonology – Rules and Derivation
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Seems like this page isn’t fully updated; the two first links to “morphology” directs to the same video, and the phonetics portion hasn’t been linked up yet. Just a heads up – content is amazing!
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In the PDF: “introduction-to-linguistics-midterm-1-solutions” the word ‘Optionality’ is a Noun not an Adjective in exercice 2 ^^
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