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Professor Pona Mahanta , Former Head, Department of English, DU |  |\n| 2. Professor Pradip Acharya , Former Head, Cotton College, Guwahati |  |\n| 3. Professor Bibhash Choudhury, Department of English, Gauhati University |  |\n| Course Co-ordinator(s) : | Chayanika Roy, Assistant Professor, Dept. of English, KKHSOU and Pallavi Gogoi, Assistant Professor, Dept. of English, KKHSOU |\n\nSLM Preparation Team  \nUNITS CONTRIBUTORS  \n1, 2, 4-8 Sawpon Dowerah , Retd. Academic Officer, SEBA  \n3 Tulika Gogoi, Research Scholar, Tezpur University  \n\n| Editorial Team\u003Cbr>Content | : | In-house editing |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Language | : | In-house editing |\n| Structure, Format & Graphics | : | Dr. Prasenjit Das, Associate Professor, KKHSOUChayanika Roy, KKHSOU\u003Cbr>Pallavi Gogoi, KKHSOU |\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 1: The History of English Language I  \nEarly Theories of Language, Origins of the English Language-Anglo Saxon Period, Middle English Period, Modern English Period  \nUnit 2: The History of English Language II  \nLanguage Change-Vocabulary, Borrowings from Other Languages, Word Formation, Basic Concepts of Language-Arbitrariness, Base, Comparative Philology, Dialects, Standard Language  \nUnit 3: Language and Linguistics: An Introduction  \nDefinitions of Language, Distinctive Characteristics of Human Language, Linguistics, History of Modern Linguistics, Levels of Linguistic Analysis, Branches of Linguistics  \nUnit 4: Morphology  \nDefinition of Morphology, The Morpheme- Lexical Words and Grammatical Words; Simple, Complex and Compound Words; Affix, Stem and Root; Inflectional and Derivational Morphology; Word Formation  \nUnit 5: Syntax  \nMeaning of Syntax, Immediate Constituent Analysis- Weaknesses of IC Analysis  \nUnit 6: Phonetics  \nDefinition of Phonetics, Acoustic Phonetics, Auditory Phonetics, Articulatory Phonetics, The Speech Sounds  \nUnit 7: Phonology  \nMeaning of Phonology, Major Concepts of Phonology- Phone, Phoneme, Allophone, Word Stress, Accent and Rhythm, Intonation  \nUnit 8: Issues in the Pronunciation of English  \nReceived Pronunciation, The Speech Mechanism, The Respiratory System, The Phonatory System, The Articulatory System  \nPages  \n5–17  \n18–30  \n31–43  \n44–64  \n65–73  \n74–84  \n85–94  \n95–108  \n\n| COURSE INTRODUCTION |\n| --- |\n| This Course entitled \"Introduction to Language and Linguistics\" is a compulsory course for BA English Major Programme. The purpose of this course is to introduce our learners to the basic concepts of English Language and Linguistics. With a total of fifteen units, divided into Block 1 and Block 2 , the course will familiarise the learners with some of the important aspects of the history of the English Language, English Phonetics and Phonology, Morphology, Vowels and Consonants, aspects of Rhetoric and Prosody, Issues in the Pronunciation of English and Stylistics. |\n| BLOCK INTRODUCTION |\n\nThe first block of the Course consists of eight units. 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