Upon successful completion, students will have the knowledge and skills to:

1. demonstrate their ability to describe properly basic aspects of language structure like speech sounds, words and sentences;
2. apply basic linguistic analytical techniques to languages that are unfamiliar to them; and
3. demonstrate their understanding of how the systems of a language interact with each other to connect meaning to form.

   - What is language? 
   - What is linguistics? | None. |

| 2 | - Phonetics 1: Introduction & articulation

• Phonetics 2: IPA | None. | | 3 | - Phonetics 3: Syllables & suprasegmentals
• Phonology 1: Phonemes & phonemic analysis | - Tutorial Preparation Task 1 due at the start of the week. | | 4 | - Phonology 2: Phonemes & phonemic analysis (continued)
• Phonology 3: Morphophonology | - Tutorial Preparation Task 2 due at the start of the week. | | 5 | - Phonology 4: Phonological typology & sound change
• Phonology 5: Signed & written language | - Tutorial Preparation Task 3 due at the start of the week. | | 6 | - Morphology 1: Introduction, words & morphemes
• Morphology 2: Morphological analysis | - Tutorial Preparation Task 4 due at the start of the week;
• Assignment 1 due at the start of the week | | 7 | - Syntax 1: Introduction, basic concepts & word classes
• Syntax 2: Constituent analysis & phrase structure | - Tutorial Preparation Task 5 due at the start of the week. | | 8 | - Syntax 3: Basic word order, core arguments, transitivity & alignment systems
• Syntax 4: Review of syntax 1-3 | - Tutorial Preparation Task 6 due at the start of the week. | | 9 | - Syntax 5: Semantic roles & syntactic ambiguity - Syntax 6: Morphological & syntactic typology | - Tutorial Preparation Task 7 due at the start of the week. | | 10 | - Semantics 1: Meaning in language
• Semantics 2: Semantic relations | - Tutorial Preparation Task 8 due at the start of the week. | | 11 | Language vitality & Indigenous languages of Australia and the Pacific Language across space and time | - Tutorial Preparation Task 9 due at the start of the week.
• Assignment 2 due at the start of the week | | 12 | Revision: ‘Pulling it all together’ Language vs other semiotic systems | - Tutorial Preparation Task 10 due at the start of the week. |