Introduction to Language and Linguistics I

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This course provides an introduction to the properties of human language and to its systematic study in the field of world languages and cultures. It provides the groundwork for future studies of language and communication in a broad range of disciplines: linguistics, world languages, ESL, communication, psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, and anthropological linguistics. It is assumed that students have had no prior course work or exposure to linguistics and will begin with the basic assumptions that are shared by those who study language from a variety of perspectives.