Obiettivi formativi
The course aims at helping students develop their competence in English with reference to phonetics, phonology, and morphology.
1. HISTORICAL ORIGIN OF ENGLISH WORDS
2. PHONETICS
- The International Phonetic Alphabet
- speech organs
- vowels and consonants
- voicing
- place of articulation
- manner of articulation
- intonation and prosody
3. MORPHOLOGY
- functional and lexical words
- morphemes
- inflectional morphology
- derivational morphology
- common affixes in English
NB - Pre-requisite: B2 level
MAIN BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCE:
Facchinetti, Roberta (2015) "English Phonetics and Morphology. A Reader for First Year University Students" (2nd ed.), Quiedit: Verona.
