An introduction to the most important patterns of development of languages through time. Topics include language families, sound change, analogical change in the forms of words, borrowing, change in meaning.

Introduction to the basic methodology and results of modern linguistics. Focus on developing, evaluating, and improving hypotheses concerning the structure of the language user's unconscious linguistic knowledge. Investigation of sentence structure (syntax), sound structure (phonology), word structure (morphology), and meaning (semantics). (Gen.Ed. R2)

Fundamentals of articulatory and acoustic phonetics, with a particular emphasis on the application of experimental results to theoretical problems in phonetics and phonology. Topics also include the components of models of speaking and listening, from the feature up to the phrase. Students carry out experiments investigating aspects of speaking or listening in the phonetics laboratory.

Introduction to the structure of complex words. Examples from English and from a variety of other languages. Introduction to theoretical approaches to the study of the structure of words.

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