This course introduces students to descriptive approaches to linguistics, the study of human language.
This course introduces students to descriptive approaches to linguistics, the study of human language.
We first look at the acoustics and articulation of sound (phonetics) and how some sounds change depending on the ones around them (phonology).
Next, we explore the structure of words (morphology) and phrases (syntax) and how such structure is the foundation of meaning (semantics).
The course ends with a synthesis of how sound, structure, and meaning change over time (historical linguistics), demonstrating that language evolution is a systematic and predicable phenomenon.
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The three basic language structures of phonology (sound structure), morphology (word structure), and syntax (sentence structure) will be illustrated on a number of levels.
Basic concepts of phonology and the procedures of phonological analysis are introduced
Description of speech sounds; transcription systems; articulation; acoustics of speech sounds
This course is an introduction to the sound structures of human language and the principles of phonological analysis.
An introduction to the study of sound patterns in human languages.
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