An introduction to theory and methods of linguistics in a survey of features of two languages, English and Spanish. Topics include universal properties of human language and phonological, morphological, syntactic and semantic structures. Special focus on the sociolinguistic perspective and the study of language as an aspect of culture.
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Curriculum: Communication Elective; Cross-listed with ENGL-411, FREN-411, GR-411, RU-411, SPAN-411. Experience in the study of Spanish is very helpful, but not required.