(Introduction à la linguistique et la phonétique du francais )

Llinguistics :   The branches of  linguistics; the

 scientific character of linguistics; some basic concepts :

 spoken /written language, synchrony /diachrony normative /descriptive linguistics, langue /parole, com -petence /performance, discrete/continuum, expression /

content; sign ; its arbitrary nature; significant/ signifié;

Phonetics of French :  Fundamentals of phonetics; phonemes; different fields and  branches of phonetics such as physiological, physical and experimental as also general, comparative,diachronic, synchronic, corrective, combinatorial and functional phonetics; phonation; organs of speech production and of articulation  

Llinguistics :  moneme /phoneme; double articulation & economy ; the circuit of speech; encoding/decoding ; redundancy;  the diagram of the six functions; dominant function ;  

Phonetics of French : detailed classification of  vowels and consonants according to their characteristics (e.g. oral/nasal/muted/sounded/open/closed  vowels &  as per their manner or their place of articulation : vibrant/ fricative/ occlusive  or labialized/ labiodental /dental/palatal/guttural consonants)

Llinguistics :  verbal structure; sentence as structure;

type and material of a sentence : obligatory and optional types; exercises with different types; the immediate constituents of  sentence : nominal phrases

Phonetics of French : the IPA (international phonetic alphabet) : transcription and retranscription from and  to text

Llinguistics : the immediate constituents of  sentence :  verbal and prepositional phrases;  syntagm & paradigm

Phonetics : the phenomenon of liaison : mandatory, optional and prohibited liaisons, exercises

Llinguistics :  linguistic  neighbourhood;  frame-testing;

 commutation & permutation;  excrcises

Phonetics : ; elision;  rhythmic, basic and breathing groups in French.