This course provides an up-to-date introduction to the study of Linguistic sciences. The course covers the importance of studying languages and linguistics. The areas that will be thoroughly covered in this course are: phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics.

By the end of the semester, students should be able to:

This is an introductory course to the study of speech sounds. It explores the fields of phonetics and phonology. It starts with a look at the human vocal tract and its work mechanism. Students then learn to describe and classify speech sounds based on their place and manner of articulation and voicing. After that students are trained on transcribing words and sentences using IPA. Students are then introduced to phoneme theory. They explore the relationship between phonemes and allophones as well as types of distribution.