LIGN 101Introduction to the Study of Language
Language is what makes us human, but how does it work? This course focuses on speech sounds and sound patterns, how words are formed, organized into sentences, and understood, how language changes, and how it is learned.
Prerequisites
From the catalog: “none.”
Where it sits in degree plans
Suggested plans most often put it in Year 2 · Spring (1 program).
Courses that list LIGN 101 as a prerequisite (21)
- LIGN 113 Hearing Science and Hearing Disorders
- LIGN 120 Morphology
- LIGN 121 Syntax I
- LIGN 130 Semantics
- LIGN 139 Field Methods
- LIGN 141 Language Structures
- LIGN 143 The Structure of Spanish
- LIGN 148 The Psycholinguistics of Gesture and Sign Languages
- LIGN 150 Historical Linguistics
- LIGN 154 Language and Consciousness
- LIGN 160 Pragmatics
- LIGN 169 Information Theory in Linguistics
- LIGN 170 Psycholinguistics
- LIGN 171 Child Language Acquisition
- LIGN 172 Psycholinguistics Laboratory Projects
- LIGN 175 Sociolinguistics
- LIGN 177 Multilingualism
- LIGN 178 Spanish Sociolinguistics
- LIGN 179 Second Language Acquisition Research
- LIGN 180 Language Representation in the Brain
- LIGN 181 Language Processing in the Brain