Courses

Required for students who elect departmental honors. Students write an honors thesis based on independent research under the direction of a faculty member. May be repeated up to 7 total credit hours.

May be repeated up to 8 total credit hours.

Introduces practical and theoretical aspects of phonetics. Provides training in recognition and production of speech sounds, and instruction on fundamentals of articulatory, acoustic, and auditory phonetics. Prerequisites: Restricted to Graduate Students only.

Covers computer methods for doing linguistics with on-line corpora. Includes extensive introduction (with lab) to the Python programming language, UNIX corpus tools, concordance programs, syntactic treebanks, propbanks, and corpora for discourse and phonology research. Restricted to graduate standing or instructor consent. Prerequisites: Restricted to Graduate Students only.

After a general introduction to issues and research methods in psycholinguistics (language production and comprehension, language and cognition, language acquisition), several major current research topics, such as models of speech production, and theories of brain specialization for language, are explored. Prereq., at least one graduate-level course in linguistics, psychology, or computer science. Same as PSYC 5300.

Studies sound systems of language. Introduces both principles of organization of sound systems and major kinds of phonological structures found worldwide. Provides extensive practice in applying phonological principles to data analysis. Prereq., LING 5030 or instructor consent.

Introduces principles of word formation and sentence structure. Covers major morphological and syntactic structures found in the world's languages, and methods for describing grammatical structures, and includes practice in analyzing data from a variety of languages. Same as LING 4420. Prerequisites: Restricted to Graduate Students only.

Explores fundamental concepts of semantics and pragmatics, including theories of communication and meaning, representation, conversational implications, speech acts, and discourse structure. Prereq., LING 5420 or instructor consent.

Familiarizes students with terminology, methods, and theories dealing with phenomena of language change through time. Prereq., LING 5410 or instructor consent. Prerequisites: Restricted to Graduate Students only.

Description of morphological and syntactic categories and structures of English. Prereq., graduate standing. Same as LING 4610.

Examines the phonetics and phonology of American English (including prosody) and explores techniques for teaching pronunciation skills to non-native speakers. Treats both general issues and specific problems for students from particular language backgrounds. Prereq., LING 3100 or LING 5030 and 5410. Prerequisites: Restricted to Graduate Students only.

Provides an overview of methods and materials for teaching English as an additional language, along with opportunities for students to observe, discuss and analyze these in relation to language teaching principles, linguistic considerations, and global and local contexts. Aimed primarily at the teaching of English to nonnative speaking adults, the course also addresses second and foreign language teaching generally. Recommended prereqs., LING 5610 or 5620. Prerequisites: Restricted to Graduate Students only.

Explores the field of natural language processing as it is concerned with the theoretical and practical issues that arise in getting computers to perform useful and interesting tasks with natural language. Covers the problems of understanding complex language phenomena and building practical programs. Prereq., graduate standing or instructor consent. Same as CSCI 5832.

May be repeated up to 7 total credit hours.

Provides observation and supervised teaching experiences in classroom and other contexts involving the teaching of English to speakers of other languages, especially adults and young adult learners in settings outside K-12. Meetings provide opportunities to debrief and to consult on teaching practice; help students connect theory, methods and practice; and support a professional teaching portfolio process. May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours. Prereq., LING 4610/5610 or instructor consent. Prerequisites: Restricted to Graduate Students only.

Interdisciplinary introduction to cognitive science, examining ideas from cognitive psychology, philosophy, education, and linguistics via computational modeling and psychological experimentation. Includes philosophy of mind; learning; categorization; vision and mental imagery; consciousness; problem solving; decision making, and game-theory; language processing; connectionism. Prereqs., graduate standing, or at least one course at the 3000-level or higher in computer science, linguistics, philosophy, or psychology. No background in computer science will be presumed Same as CSCI 6402, EDUC 6504, PHIL 6310, and PSYC 6200. Prerequisites: Restricted to Graduate Students only.

Discusses current issues and research in a selected area related to language use and function. Sample topics include conversational interaction, language policy, language content, and sociolinguistic variation. Prerequisites: Restricted to Graduate Students only.

Serves as an advanced introduction to the empirical and theoretical foundations of contemporary sociolinguistic analysis, with special emphasis on linguistic variation, diversity and change. Prerequisites: Restricted to Graduate Students only.

Serves as an advanced introduction to the empirical and theoretical foundations of contemporary linguistic anthropology, with special emphasis on the ways in which culture and society emerge semiotically through language and discourse. Same as ANTH 6320. Prerequisites: Restricted to Graduate Students only.

Introduces the major constructs used by formal theories of syntax to capture the relationship between meaning and syntactic form and uses data from diverse languages to explore the universality of these constructs. Restricted to graduate students.

Surveys the structure of one or more languages, emphasizing understanding how parts of the language interact. Designed to supplement courses in which parts of languages are used to illustrate theoretical claims. Prereqs., LING 5410 and 5420. Prerequisites: Restricted to Graduate Students only.

Students compare and contrast selected structures of languages treated from a typological, genetic, or a real perspective. No special prior knowledge of the subject language is required. Prereqs., LING 5410, 5420, and 5570, or equivalent. Prerequisites: Restricted to Graduate Students only.

Theories and research methods in first-language acquisition of phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics. Prereqs., LING 5410, 5420, and 5430, or instructor consent.