All students are required to participate in one language drill a week for an optional 0.5 credit. 1 or 1.5 credits. Phonetics and Phonology Phonology is the study of the sounds of language and the rules that govern the interaction of sounds when they are put together in words and phrases. Primary distribution course. We study the principles that govern how words go together to make phrases and sentences in natural language.
Much time is spent on learning argumentation skills.
The linguistic skills gained in this course are applicable to the study of any natural language, modern or ancient. The argumentation skills gained in this course are applicable to law and business, as well as academic fields. This course also falls in the third category of courses approved as counting toward a computer science concentration. Primary distribution course. We study the reconstruction of prehistoric linguistic stages, the establishment of language families and their interrelationships, and the examination of processes of linguistic change.