Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to demonstrate:
1. an understanding of the basic mechanisms of production and classification of speech sounds;
2. an understanding of the phonological principles of contrast, complementary distribution and free variation;
3. the ability to analyse English clause structures;
4. an understanding of the semantic and functional correlates of particular grammatical structures.

Topics to be covered include:
* production, description and classification of English speech sounds
* principles of contrast, complementary distribution and free variation exemplified in the sound patterns of English
* aspects of English sentence structure: review of simple clause structure; subordination (relative clauses, content clauses, comparatives); coordination and apposition; adverbials

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Distance Learning : Paper Based
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Lecture

Lecture: for 3 hour(s) per Week for Full Term