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Introduction to Language & Linguistics
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What you'll learn
Understand the fundamentals of language
Understand sentence structure and word order of various languages.
Classify words into nouns, verbs, adjectives, prepositions, quantifiers, and adverbs.
Draw syntactic trees for simple sentences.
Understand the difference between entailment, implicature, presupposition, and contradiction.
Understand Gricean Maxims and when they are utilized or broken in conversation.
Identify the thematic role of words in a sentence.
Understand what affixes do and how they can change the meaning of words.
Identify morphological processes in languages across the world.
Understand the properties of vowels and consonants.
Read and write the International Phonetic Alphabet.
Understand how sounds interact with each other.
Use the features of sounds to create rules about how sounds change in different environments.
Attain the toolbox required to learn languages a little bit easier.
