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- LING-L 103 Introduction to the Study of Language (3 cr.) A survey of perspectives on language, covering topics such as the relation between the form of words and sentences and their meanings, the sounds of languages and their dialect variations, the use of language in daily life, language in humans and animals, and the relationship between language and thought.
- LING-L 112 Language and Politics (3 cr.) Explores how language and politics influence each other. The speeches of presidents, vice presidents, congressmen, senators, governors, and action group members will be examined. Course topics include notions of context, political pronouns, parallelism, metaphors, questions and answers, political correctness, censorship, and the politics about languages (language policy issues).
- LING-L 115 African American Language (3 cr.) Introduction to African American Language, the English variety spoken by North Americans of African descent. Develops skills in describing the variety's pronunciation, vocabulary, and sentence structure patterns. Explores diversity within AAL as well as the impact of linguistic prejudice on AAL speakers.
- LING-L 203 Introduction to Linguistic Analysis (3 cr.) Introduction to basic concepts of linguistic analysis, exemplifying the general principles of structural approaches to the modeling of language. Focus on, and application of, analytical methods applied in phonetics/phonology and morphology/syntax. Credit given for only one of LING-L 203 or LING-L 303.
- LING-L 205 Language and Style (3 cr.) A study of variation in language, particularly as it affects the transmission of meaning. Geographic, social, sexual, and situational linguistic variation will be studied. The specialized forms and functions of the languages of politics, advertising, and literature will be examined in detail, as will various strategies for verbal manipulation.
- LING-L 210 Topics in Language and Society (3 cr.) The study of topics relating to the role of language as a social phenomenon. May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours.
- LING-L 213 Language Acquisition (3 cr.) Explores and evaluates the biological foundations of language as well as the impact of the learning environment on acquisition. Covers typical language development and language learning in exceptional circumstances.
- LING-L 214 Animal Communication (3 cr.) A comparative overview surveying basic aspects of animal communication, including human communication, and covering such issues as the nature of communicative signals, the relative unity versus diversity within communicating groups, and the role of learning versus innateness in communication systems.
- LING-L 245 Language and Computers (3 cr.) Present-day computer systems work with human language. This course surveys issues relating natural language to computers, covers real-world applications, and provides practical experience with natural language on computers. Topics include text encoding, search technology, machine translation, dialogue systems, computer-aided language learning, and the social context of technology.
- LING-L 306 Phonetics (3 cr.) Introduction to the nature of speech, and the physiology and process of speech production, and training in IPA transcription of utterances drawn from the languages of the world, including various English dialects. The course includes an emphasis on naturally occurring speech and understanding physical aspects of speech behavior. Some laboratory work is included.