- Applied Linguistics -

 This course gives you a language about language. It explains the structural and functional processes of English: its inventory and combinations of sounds, how it forms (and changes) words, and how those words combine to form phrases and sentences that function as discourse. Another fundamental area covered in this course is language growth, both on an individual level (how a baby begins to talk, how an adult learner adds another language) and on a general level (how English evolved and how it changed over time). The course fulfills the Applied Linguistics requirement for English majors.