Introduction to Linguistics

(3 Credit Hours) · Undergraduate

This course explores major branches of linguistics, including: - phonetics & phonology (the production and perception of speech sounds) - morphology and lexicon (the structure of building meanings in words) - syntax (the logical 'rules' of language use in speech or writing) - semantics (the cognitive meaning conveyed through linguistic utterances). Through this course, students gain the fundamental knowledge needed to digest and analyze linguistic research in a variety of contexts. With these understandings, students will begin to explore how the distinct branches of linguistic study inform interdisciplinary research in fields like natural language processing, sociolinguistics, anthropological linguistics, historical linguistics, computational linguistics, and psycholinguistics.