Lesbian,Gay,Bisexual,Transgender,Queer 150 - Linguistics:Data,Theory and Experiments

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Colgate University

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Y. Hirata, A.D. Nakhimovsky, N. Stolova Language is by far the most important means of communication among humans and the central cognitive ability separating them from the rest of the animal kingdom. Linguistic activity is all-pervasive and forms the foundation of all other high-level symbolic activities. At the same time, many aspects of this activity remain deeply mysterious. How did the language ability come about Why is it that children learn their first language with such ease, while most adults have great difficulties learning a second one How is it possible to learn such a complex set of rules in such a short time, on the basis of a very small corpus of data, much of it grammatically incorrect These and other questions form the subject matter of the field of linguistics and are explored in this course.

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3.00

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www.colgate.edu

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(315) 228-1000

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

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Semester

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