INTRODUCTION TO LANGUAGE AND LINGUISTICS

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This course is required for the Linguistics major and minor; the Writing major General Writing Track, the General Writing minor; and the TESOL minor. This course also satisfies the linguistics foundation course for all Modern Languages majors in French, Mandarin Chinese, and Spanish. This course will cover a variety of topics useful to any language-related course of study. Areas covered include sound structure, word structure, and sentence structure; meaning and function of language; language and culture; language and thought; linguistic variation; history of writing systems; and language acquisition. Prerequisite: WRTG 1320.