Covers the relationship of meaning to the morphology of languages and the treatment of semantics in various contemporary linguistic theories. Introduces students to the analysis and description of the sounds of the world's languages. Students learn how to distinguish these sounds from one another, what their articulatory and acoustic properties are, and how to transcribe them using the International Phonetic Alphabet. The course is of special interest to students in anthropology, foreign languages, English, psychology, sociology, computer science, and linguistics. Introduces phonology, the area of linguistics that investigates how languages organize sounds into highly constrained systems.
Students learn skills for doing phonological analysis of individual languages.
Phonological analysis is learned through examining data drawn from a variety of the languages of the world. Considers the nature of grammatical rules and the relation between the grammar of a language and its acquisition by children. Language and Society V61.0015 Singler. Considers contemporary issues in the interaction of language and society, particularly work on speech variation and social structure. Focuses on ways in which social factors affect language.