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| LST3231 | Language Change and Dialect | ||
| SCHOOL OF COMMUNICATIONS AND ARTS | |||
| Credit Points: 20 | |||
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| LST1121 | Introduction to Language | ||
| Description: | |||
| An introduction to the study of synchronic and diachronic variation in language; language change at the phonological, grammatical, lexical, semantic and discourse levels; the origins and evolution of language; languages in contact; regional and social dialects and national varieties of language; pidgins and creoles; the role of dialectology in historical and comparative linguistics; language universals and language typology; theoretical approaches to language change, including the neogrammarian, structural, transformational, and sociolinguistic. Full Unit Outline | |||
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Last Updated - Higher Education: 12/07/2011 VET: 12/07/2011