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Introduction to Language and Linguistics

Course Code
LING1401

It examines human language and animal communication, natural and artificial language, oral and written language; prescriptive and descriptive grammars; the concepts of     well-formedness and grammatically; the concepts of structure; language in its social context, lectures and different types of variation; language types versus language families, universal properties of language, language change; language and brain, language acquisition.