SPE 1700 - Introduction to Linguistics

4 Credit(s) Hours: 4 hrs.

Introduction to the scientific study of language, including the analysis of word, sentence, and sound structure. This survey course presents some of the major areas of the formal study of linguistics, including morphology, phonetics, phonology, syntax and semantics. In addition, this course introduces the applied fields of language acquisition and sociolinguistics.

Department: Communications and Performing Arts