Marina Blekher
Contact
Full Teaching Professor, Faculty of Arts - Linguistics Dept
- mblekher@ualberta.ca
- Phone
- (780) 492-4970
- Address
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4-43 Assiniboia Hall
9137 116 St NWEdmonton ABT6G 2E7
Courses
LING 101 - Introduction to Linguistic Analysis
Central concepts of linguistics: linguistic categories and structure (phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics). Note: May not be taken by students with credit in LING 111.
LING 204 - Syntax of the World's Languages
Examination of syntactic structures of natural languages from a descriptive-typological perspective, including parts of speech systems, clause types, sentence structure, grammatical relations, and syntactic processes. Students will learn how languages organize their syntax and how syntax is both the same and different across languages. Prerequisite: LING 101.
LING 320 - Second Language Acquisition
Introduction to the study of the acquisition of second or additional languages. Students will learn about psycholinguistic, sociolinguistic, and other factors which influences second language learning, as well as sources of individual learner differences and topics in bilingualism. Prerequisite: LING 101.