Course overview
This course explores how languages are configured to be meaningful, including key concepts and methods of analysis in morphology, phonology and syntax. Learners have opportunities to apply foundational concepts and analytic methods to examples of language from a wide range of real-world contexts.
- Noticing language
- Bits and pieces of language
- Building language
Course learning outcomes
- Recognise and explain structural elements of language in both human and AI-generated language
- Analyse how diverse structural elements of language combine to create meaning
- Apply theoretical concepts related to the architecture of language to linguistic data
- Reflect on ways that structural-meaning relationships shift over time, context and modalities.
Availability
Class details
Adelaide City Campus East
Class number 29425
Section TU01
Size 24
Available 24
Class number 29424
Section TU02
Size 24
Available 24
Class number 29423
Section TU03
Size 24
Available 24
Class number 29422
Section TU04
Size 24
Available 24
Magill
Class number 24981
Section TU01
Size 24
Available 24
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