Introduction to Linguistics, Course A (Lecture)

Description

This course is designed to introduce beginning students to the central terms and topics in current (English) linguistics. Topics to be dealt with include phonetics, phonology, morphology, semantics, syntax, major (syntactic) contrasts between English and German. We will also have some brief looks at how these topics are relevant in language acquisition, language storage and processing in the human brain, and language variation over time and in society. More information 1 Credit hours indicate the duration of a course which is offered weekly during one semester. One credit hour equals 45 minutes.