UCC Linguistics

Language shapes the way we think, and determines what we can think about.

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PhoneticsPhonologyMorphologySyntaxSemanticsPragmaticsSociolinguisticsHistorical LinguisticsComputational LinguisticsApplied LinguisticsPsycholinguisticsComparative Linguistics

how speech sounds are physically produced, transmitted, and perceived.how a language organizes its sounds into systematic patterns and rules.how words are built from morphemes, the smallest units of meaning.how words combine into phrases and sentences through structural rules.how words, phrases, and sentences encode and convey literal meaning.how meaning depends on context, intention, and shared assumptions.how language varies and shifts across social groups and regions.how languages change, diverge, and relate over the course of centuries.how computers model, analyze, and generate human language.how linguistic theory is applied to teaching, translation, and technology.how the mind acquires, stores, produces, and comprehends language.how the world's languages are structurally compared and classified.

Every week at 1:30
in room 218