Linguistics courses are a valuable complement to any major that deals with language, literature, the human mind and cognition, sociology, or education. Introduction to fresh perspectives on linguistic theory and applications. The course focuses on such diverse topics as animal communication, child language acquisition, human speech, language variation and change, and language as human interaction. This course explores the dynamic interaction of language and culture across cultures.
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An introduction to the mental and biological systems that enable human beings to communicate with language. Topics in psycholinguistics include the biological evolution of language, child language acquisition, speech and language processing, bilingualism, aphasia and dyslexia. The course examines the relationship between language and society. At the micro level, the emphasis is on social interaction and the ways language reflects and shapes class, culture, gender, ideology, and conversational style. The application of linguistic methods and theories to the analysis of texts in English.