To introduce the undergraduate student of Spanish to core 
concepts and terminology for the scientific study of language, 
and analysis of rule-goverened behavior of Spanish speakers.  
Representative date include formal and informal registers of 
Spanish dialects.  Application of key concepts in the study of 
noun and verb morphology, and the organization of noun and verb 
phrases.  Besides demonstration of acquired knowledge through 
exams, students will do exercises and solve problems 
illustrating the nature of linguistic knowledge of Spanish.

Week I: Introduction to human language as rule-governed 
structures, and speech as rule-governed language use.
Week II: Signs and symbols.  Knowledge of sound system, 
sentences, and the meaning of words; creativity of linguistic 
knowledge.
Week III: Linguistic variation; the social dimension of 
language; Spanish language and dialects; male and female 
speech.  
Week IV: Spanish sounds and spelling; syllables and syllable 
structure.
Week V: Consonants, vowels, glides.  Systems of representation.
Week VI: Phonological system, phonological processes (voicing, 
devoicing, aspiration, velarization; other processes).
Week VII: Internal organization of words; agreement. 
Week VIII-IX: Verb morphology.
Week XI-XII: Word order; syntatict structures.
Week XIII: Types of meaning in words and sentences. Pragmatics.
Week XIV: Linguistic change and language variation
Week XV: Spanish in the U.S.