LINA01H3 Midterm: Term Test 1 (1/3) - Fall 2017
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Learn the methodology of the field and develop skills in analyzing data from a language and recognizing the patterns that underlie that data. Develop a sense of the extent to which languages can di er from one another, but also of the ways in which they tend to be all alike (diversity and universality among languages) Linguistics is not about learning different languages, it"s about studying how languages work and how the human language (ex. Do linguists speak many languages: language vs. languages: Linguists study particular languages to discover the fundamental properties of language: study languages vs. speak languages: The question asked in all levels of investigation is what is it that we know when we know a language? . To understand the nature of the human mind: because only humans speak human language or any language at all animals can"t speak, so linguistics is kind of a gateway to understanding the human mind.
