Contents Chapter 1 Language and linguistics 1 What is human language 2 What is linguistics Chapter 2 Language unlversals 1 Semantic universals 2 Phonological universals 3 Syntactic universals 4 Absolute universals Chapter 3 The history of English I Old English 1 Languages in Britain before English 2 Old English Chapter 4 The history of English Ⅱ Middle English 1 The change from Old English to Middle English 2 Modem English Chapter 5 Language acquisition and disordersChild language acquisition 2 Language development and maturation 3 Second language acquisition 4 Language disorders 5 Errors Chapter 6 Communication 1 Saussure's model of the speech circuit 2 Shannon's and Moles' communication models 3 Btihler's organon model 4 Jakobson's model of communicative functions Chapter 7 Phonetics 1 Artieulatory phonetics 2 Articulatory phonetics--vowels Chapter 8 Phonology 1 Phonemes and aUophones 2 Distinctive features 3 Redundant features 4 Rules of phonology Chapter 9 Morphology 1 Types of morphemes 2 Morphology and word-formation 3 Word classes and sentence functions Chapter l0 Syntax 1 Introduction 2 Traditional grammar