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May 10, 2024
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Undergraduate/Graduate Catalog 2015-2016 [ARCHIVED CATALOG] See drop-down menu above to access other catalogs.
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LASP 253 - Introduction to Hispanic Linguistics(3 credits)
Prerequisite: LASP 200 or consent of instructor
This course serves as an introduction to Hispanic linguistics. Various topics, covering both the fundamental areas of linguistics, as well as more specialized ones, will be covered. These entail syntax (the study of the structure of sentences), morphology (the study of the formation of words), phonetics (the study of the making of sounds from a physiological perspective), phonology (the study of the relationship between sounds in a language), historical linguistics (the study of the evolution of the language through time), language acquisition (the study of the processes through which languages are acquired), sociolinguistics (the study of the use of language within a social context) and dialectology (the study of linguistic variation). No previous knowledge of linguistics is assumed. This course is conducted entirely in Spanish.
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