Introduction to Comparative Analysis: English and Spanish

This course provides an introduction to comparative linguistics of English and Spanish and develops an understanding of how the two languages are used as communication systems. The course focuses on carrying out descriptions of the two languages, noting similarities and differences, and predicting possible problems when a speaker of Spanish studies English and vice versa. The linguistics subsystems of both languages will be campared and contrasted. Students will specifically study the sound systems and their rules, the spelling patterns of words, word forms and grammar rules, sentence construction and word order, vocabulary words and sentence meaning, and the socio-cultural linguistic conventions appropriate to various situations.

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