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Course Description
LING001 is a general introduction to the scientific study of language structure, history, and use. Topics
include the biological basis of human language, and analogous systems in other creatures; relations to
cognition, communication, and social organization; sounds, forms and meanings in the world’s languages;
the reconstruction of linguistic history and the family tree of languages; dialect variation; language learning
by children and adults; the neurology of language and…
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