16.7 2nd and 3rd years Ilia Pejros. 175-210/310 Phonetics and Phonology. Second semester Two lectures and a tutorial a week. By the end of the subject, students should:

• have a general understanding of how and why languages change;
• have developed practical skills in determining the genetic relationships between languages and reconstructing past states of languages.

The how and why of language change, with training in how to reconstruct genetic relationship between languages. Regular assignment problems and an essay, totalling 5,000 words. Crowley Introduction to Historical Linguistics.