My Papers

I wrote these papers while pursuing a master's in English with empahsis on general linguistics in India . Some of them are recent, and deal with second language acquisition, language teaching, research proposal, etc. I have also included my comprehensive research papers and a review of Larry Selinker's famous book, Rediscovering Interlanguage. Please feel free to download the papers, and share them with your colleagues. Please do not quote, because they are not published.

• How are allophones grouped in a phoneme?
• Analogical Change
• Early American Speech
• Conditions for Borrowing
• Differences between British and American English
• Endocentric and Exocentric Constructions
• Comparative Method
• Consonants and Vowels
• Effects of Transfer on Interlanguage Phonology
• Effects of Visual Feedback on Second Language Productive Phonology
• A Review of Selinker's Rediscovering Interlanguage
• Conditioning of Allomorphs
• Dialect, Register, and Style
• Diphthongs
• Deep Structure and Surface Structure
• The Grouping of the English Language
• How the French Language has Influenced English
• Genetic Classification of Language
• Genological Classification of Language
• Historical Linguistics
• The Advantages and Disadvantages of IC Analysis
• The Concept of IC Analysis
• Indo-European Family
• Relation between Morphophonemic Alteration and Internal Reconstruction
• Internal Reconstruction
• What is Language?
• Types of Language Change
• Causes and Mechanism of Language Change
• Linguistic Level
• What is a Morpheme?
• Native-like Phonology in a Second Language
• The Concept of Phonemes
• Phrase Structure Grammar
• The Application of Phrase Structure Rules
• The Classification of Registers
• Semantic Change
• Structural Grammar
• Sound Change
• The Speech Producing Mechanism
• Synchronic and Diachronic Approaches to Language
• Tagmemics
• Language Teaching
• Transformational Generative Grammar
• Different Methods of Foreign Language Teaching
• Nine Types of Spoken Drills
• Principles of Language Teaching
• English - Its Origin and Relation to Other Languages
• Features of Indian English
• L1 & L2 Learning
• Relation between Linguistics and Language Teaching
• Some Key Pronunciation Terms
• Quotable Quotes
• Conditions Under Which English is Taught in India
• Traditional Grammar and Its Weaknesses
• Typological Classification of Language
• The Role of Visual Aids in Teaching Language
• Interlanguage
• Language Analysis Project
• The Acquisition of Native-like Phonology in a Second Language
• The Critical Period Hypothesis
• Language and Cognition