LING 4015 - Dialects of North American English

Credits: 3

Prerequisite(s): ENG 2010 or permission of instructor

Description: In this course, students analyze the phonological, morphological, syntactic, and lexical variation in English as spoken in diverse regional and social contexts across the United States and Canada. This course provides a thorough overview of the status of language variation in North America and a survey of the various methodological and theoretical approaches used in dialect research. This course offers students the opportunity to conduct original dialect field research and write a paper reporting their findings.