Welcome to World of Language

Class Description: This course exposes students to the fascinating variety and uniformity to be found among the worlds languages. Discussions on languages with words that grow to the size of entire sentences, and reconstructed ancient languages which give rise to huge families of modern languages. Also an examination of a wide range of fundamental questions: Is knowledge of language encoded in the genes? Is it unique to mankind? How do new languages emerge from the contact of two very different languages? Are all languages related? How does the native language influence the acquisition of a second language? Does language determine thought?

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