Course Schedule and Catalog

Department: Linguistics

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: INTRODUCTION TO THE SCIENTIFIC STUDY OF LANGUAGE ***** DISTRIBUTION COURSE GROUP 2 ***** Introduction to concepts and terminology in the scientific study of language. Includes sound systems (phonology), construction of words (morphology), organization of words in the sentence (syntax), meaning (semantics), and information flow (pragmatics), as well as a survey of interdisciplinary uses of linguistics such as historical linguistics (archaeology), dialectology (sociology), and language acquisition (psychology, cognitive sciences, and language teaching). ***** Also offered as ANTH 200. ***** Offered Fall and Spring semesters.