Satisfies the university general education requirement in mathematics, logic, and computer science. Satisfies the university general education requirement in language. Consideration of the nature of language as a specifically human phenomenon. Satisfies the university general education requirement in natural science and technology. Emphasis on the analysis of sound and structure, variation and change, and linguistic universals.
Attention is given to modern theories about the organization of thought.
Identical with COM 207. Satisfies the university general education requirement in language. An introduction to synchronic linguistic analysis, with structural problems in natural languages. Exploration of the sound system of English and its historical development. Survey of classic and recent approaches to the analysis and description of semantic structures in natural languages.