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    • Language And Linguistics . LING 20

    Introduction to the scientific study of language: The sounds of language; word and sentence structure; semantics and pragmatics; discourse and conversational speech; the social and cultural functions of language; language change and the reconstruction of languages at earlier stages.

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    Letters and science

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    16:00 PM - 16:50 PM
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