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\nIntroduction to Language and Linguistics  \nSEMESTER VI  \nENGLISH  \nBLOCK-2  \nKRISHNA KANTA HANDIQUI STATE OPEN UNIVERSITY  \n\n| Subject Experts |\n| --- |\n| 1. Prof. Pona Mahanta , Former Head, Department of English, DU |\n| 2. Prof. Pradip Acharya , Former Head, Cotton College, Guwahati |\n| 3. Prof. Bibhash Choudhury, Department of English, Gauhati University |\n\nCourse Co-ordinator : Pallavi Gogoi, Assistant Professor, Dept. of English, KKHSOU  \nand Chayanika Roy, Assistant Professor, KKHSOU  \nSLM Preparation Team  \nUNITS CONTRIBUTORS  \n9, 10, 11, 12, 13 Sawpon Dowerah , Retd. Academic Officer, SEBA  \n14, 15 Dr. Prasenjit Das, Associate Prof. , Dept. of English, KKHSOU  \n\n| Editorial Team\u003Cbr>Content :\u003Cbr>Language (English Version) :\u003Cbr>Structure, Format & Graphics : | Inhouse editing\u003Cbr>Pallavi Gogoi, Assistant Professor and Chayanika Roy, Assistant Professor, KKHSOUPrasenjit Das, Assistant Professor,\u003Cbr>Pallavi Gogoi, Assistant Professor and Chayanika Roy, Assistant Professor, KKHSOU |\n| --- | --- |\n\nNovember, 2019 ISBN No.  \nThis Self Learning Material (SLM) of the Krishna Kanta Handiqui State Open University is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-Share Alike 4.0 License (international): [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/)  \nPrinted and published by Registrar on behalf of the Krishna Kanta Handiqui State Open University.  \nHeadquarter : Patgaon, Rani Gate, Guwahati -781017; [Web : www.kkhsou.in/web_new](Web : www.kkhsou.in/web_new)[ ](Web : www.kkhsou.in/web_new)City Office : Housefed Complex, Dispur, Guwahati-781006;  \nThe University acknowledges with thanks the financial support provided by the Distance Education Bureau , UGC for the preparation of this study material.  \nCONTENTS  \nUNIT 9: Vowels and Consonants  \nIntroduction, Defining the Term ‘Vowel’, Criteria for Describing Vowels, The Pure Vowels, Diphthongs, The Term ‘Consonant’, Criteria for Describing Consonants, Plosives, Affricates, Fricatives, Nasals, Laterals, Frictionless Continuant, and Semi-Vowels  \nUNIT 10: Stress, Rhythm and Intonation I  \nIntroduction, Word Stress, Various Stress Patterns, Stress in Compound Words, and Grammatical Function of Stress  \nUNIT 11: Stress, Rhythm and Intonation II  \nIntroduction, Sentence Stress and Rhythm Contractions, Weak Forms, Intonation-Tone Group, Falling Tone, Rising Tone, and Fall-rise  \nUNIT 12: Rhetoric  \nIntroduction, Defining Rhetoric, Figures of Speech—Based on Similarity, Association, Contrast or Difference, Figures Based on Imagination, Indirectness, Sound and Construction  \nUNIT 13: Prosody  \nIntroduction, Defining Prosody, Syllable and Accent, Foot or Measure, Rhythm and Metre  \nUNIT 14: Stylistics I  \nIntroduction, Defining Stylistics, History of Stylistics, Stylistics of PoetrySyllables and Metre, Rhyme and Stanza, Stylistics of Prose Fiction and Play  \nUNIT 15: Stylistics II  \nIntroduction, Contributions of Roman Jakobson, Viktor Shklovsky, Vladimir Propp, A.J. 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