Linguistics
Linguistics
Linguistics Course Description
Introduction to Anthropological Linguistics - LING 11.250/ANTH 02.250
(3 s.h.) (no prerequisite)
Students in this interdisciplinary course will engage in the scientific study of language with particular reference to the relationships among the languages, thoughts, and cultures of speech communities living all over the world, including within the United States, France, India, Canada, Spain, Japan and Peru, among others. Additional course topics include the process of human language acquisition, structures of human language, bilingualism and the ways in which race, class, gender, and other social characteristics may be displayed through the use of language.
(3 s.h.) (no prerequisite)
Students in this interdisciplinary course will engage in the scientific study of language with particular reference to the relationships among the languages, thoughts, and cultures of speech communities living all over the world, including within the United States, France, India, Canada, Spain, Japan and Peru, among others. Additional course topics include the process of human language acquisition, structures of human language, bilingualism and the ways in which race, class, gender, and other social characteristics may be displayed through the use of language.
Linguistics - LING 11.325
(3 s.h.) (no prerequisite)
Students study the nature of human language by examining four major components: phonetics, phonology, semantics, and syntax. Linguistics principally emphasizes linguistic universals, characteristics which all human languages share. Students discuss dialect formation, first-language acquisition in children, and animal communication systems. Students also compare modern linguistic theories.