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Sacramento, California
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ENGL 110A
Linguistics and the English Language
Survey of modern English and the basic concepts of modern linguistics. Students will learn how linguists view regularity in language, as exemplified by data from English. Students will also learn how English spelling is an imperfect representation of sounds, how the sound system of English operates, how words and sentences are formed and may be analyzed, how the language changes over time, space, and social setting, and how the language is learned by children and adults.
Units: 3.0