Course Description: Intro to Spanish Linguistics: Presents the principal branches of linguistic study, as it pertains to Spanish: the sound system (phonetics and phonology), the structure of words (morphology), and the structure of sentences (syntax). Additionally, attention is paid to bilingualism, especially Spanish in the US, and how Spanish is spoken/written differently by various social groups (sociolinguistics) and in various Spanish-speaking countries (dialectology). Taught in Spanish.
Course Narrative:
In this course, Span 313 was explaining how language works at the structural and social levels, in addition to how it varies and changes. This class explained the sound system in Spanish and important terms related to phonetics and phonology, giving us an understanding of how words and sentences are formed in Spanish and important terms related to morphosyntax. We were able to identify and explain factors that contribute to linguistic variation. Also describing the different factors involved in the learning of Spanish in a class versus an immersion context. Something I found interesting was the way of analyzing linguistics attitudes toward stigmatized varied ting of English and Spanish. For this course we did a little project about El Salvador on how the eastern side of that country has a different pronunciation. So we focused on how their accent was different from the other people.