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Textbook: G. Berruto, M. Cerruti, “La linguistica. Un corso introduttivo”, Utet, Torino, 2017 (chapters 1, 2, 3, 5 and 7).

Chapter 1 - Il linguaggio verbale (Verbal language)
(except "box" 1.1, "Sistemi di scrittura", and paragraph 1.3.12, "Lingua solo umana").

Chapter 2 - Fonetica e fonologia (Phonetics and phonology)
(except paragraph 2.1.6, "Consonanti", paragraph 2.1.7, "Vocali e approssimanti", the "boxes" 2.3, 2.4 e 2.5, and paragraphs 2.3, "Fatti prosodici", 2.3.1, "Accento", 2.3.2, "Tono e intonazione" and 2.3.3, "Lunghezza").
In addition to the contents of this chapter, there is the table "I fonemi dell'italiano standard", that you can download from my personal web page (section "Materiali didattici" or "Avvisi").
At the end of chapter 2, you should do also the exercises 13, 14, 22, 25, 26, 27, 28 and 29. A further exercise, regarding "Trascrizione fonetica", can be downloaded from my personal web page (section "Materiali didattici" or "Avvisi").

Chapter 3 - Morfologia (Morphology)
(except "box" 3.1, paragraph 3.2.3, "Altri tipi di morfemi", and "scheda" 3.1).
At the end of this chapter, you should do also the exercises 22, 23, 34 and 35. Furthermore, there is an exercise called "Scomposizione morfematica", which can be downloaded from my personal web page (section "Materiali didattici" or "Avvisi").

Chapter 5 - Semantica, lessico e pragmatica (Semantics, lexicon and pragmatics).
At the end of this chapter, you should also do the exercises 10, 11 and 12.

Chapter 7 - Mutamento e variazione nelle lingue (Change and variation in languages).
Notice that, as regards paragraph 7.1.2, "Fenomeni del mutamento", you can choose and remember just three examples, but each at a different level of language analysis, e.g. phonetics, morphology and semantics; the same is valid for "fenomeni della variazione diatopica", "fenomeni della variazione diastratica" and "fenomeni della variazione diafasica" in paragraph 7.2.2, i.e. just three examples for each kind of phenomena (each example at a different level of languages analysis).

G. Berruto, M. Cerruti, “La linguistica. Un corso introduttivo”, Utet, Torino, 2017 (chapters 1, 2, 3, 5 and 7).