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LING UN3101

Introduction to Linguistics · Linguistics

An introduction to the study of language from a scientific perspective. The course is divided into three units: language as a system (sounds, morphology, syntax, and semantics), language in…

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John McWhorter · 2026 · 2026

I learned the basics of linguistics, as one would expect. But I also learned strategies for approaching more brain-teaser-like linguistics problems and interesting backstories behind different language phenomena.

William Foley · 2024 · 2024

I learned about phonetics, morphology, syntax, and writing in IPA. The course goes into IPA within the first two weeks and the first three assignments were the hardest.

John McWhorter · 2026 · 2026

Semantics, Historical liguistics, phonetics

William Foley · 2024 · 2024

phonetics, phonology, morphology, nd syntax analysis if the world's languages

John McWhorter · 2026 · 2026

How to think about language, from phonetics/phonology, morphology, syntax, etc to language change and writing systems. A great overview of everything language- related!

William Foley · 2024 · 2024

Phonetics, phonology, syntax, morphology, and semantics

John McWhorter · 2026 · 2026

It was a general introduction to Linguistics, very interesting, but made me realize I did not want to major in it.

William Foley · 2024 · 2024

I learned about the basics of IPA for linguistics, and about semantics, phonology, and how to gain information from a set of words or sentences from another language.

John McWhorter · 2026 · 2026

phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, language change over time, sociolinguistics, writing systems

William Foley · 2024 · 2024

I learned about phonetics, phonology, morphology, and syntax.

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