LING 408

spring 2006
 
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Credit: 3 OR 4 hours.

Introductory survey of writing systems, with emphasis on what kind of linguistic information is encoded; historical development and adaptation of writing systems to new languages; computational models of writing systems; decipherment; the effect of properties of writing systems on human reading, and linguistic awareness; implications of writing systems for linguistic theory. Prerequisite: LING 400 or equivalent general introduction to linguistics, or LING 302 or equivalent introduction to phonology. 3 Undergraduate Hours. 4 Graduate Hours.

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