How Language Works: Introduction to Linguistics

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This course provides an introduction to the scientific study of human language through the analysis of three mains aspects, namely, linguistic structures, language as a social dimension, and language as a mirror of cognitive processes. As such, we will study the various branches of general linguistics and explore interdisciplinary topics such as first, second, and heritage language acquisition, forensic linguistics, historical linguistics, psycholinguistics, and sociolinguistics.