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LING 201A - Phonological Theory II
Instructor(s):
Samuel Zukoff
Lecture, four hours. Requisite: course 200A. Continuation of course 200A. Second course in two-course survey of current research in phonological theory. Topics include autosegmentalism (tone, tiers, segment structure), feature theory, underspecification, prosodic morphology. S/U (2-unit course) and S/U or letter (4-unit course) grading.
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LING 201B - Syntactic Theory II
Instructor(s):
Michelle Yuan
Lecture, four hours. Requisite: course 200B. In-depth introduction to selected topics in theory of movement processes and topics selected from following areas: WH-movement and related rules, subjacency and other constraints on movement; ECP and related conditions on distribution of empty categories; resumptive pronoun constructions; parametric variation in movement constructions; LF WH-movement; filters; reconstruction; parasitic gaps; barriers theory; control theory; null subject parameter. S/U (2-unit course) and S/U or letter (4-unit course) grading.
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LING 201C - Semantic Theory II
Instructor(s):
Yael Sharvit
Lecture, four hours. Requisite: course 200C. Survey of current approaches to model-theoretic semantics and its relation to current linguistic theory. Approaches include generalized categorial grammars, Montague grammar, Boolean-based systems, generalized quantifier theory, logical form. S/U (2-unit course) and S/U or letter (4-unit course) grading.
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LING 204C - Speech Perception
Instructor(s):
Megha Sundara
Lecture, four hours. Recommended requisite: course 104 (or 204A) or 111 (or 211). Limited to graduate students. Survey of topics in speech perception research. Topics include auditory physiology and psychophysics, categorical speech perception, and cross-linguistic speech perception and word recognition. Emphasis on use of experimental methods such as lexical decision, gating, priming, eye tracking, phoneme monitoring, and word spotting. S/U or letter grading.
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LING 210A - Field Methods I
Instructor(s):
William Torrence
Lecture, four hours. Preparation: grade of B or better in course 103 or in examination on practical phonetics. Requisites: courses 200A, 200B. Analysis of a language unknown to members of class from data elicited from a native speaker of the language. Term papers to be relatively full descriptive sketches of the language. May be repeated for credit with topic change. S/U or letter grading.
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LING 251A - Topics in Phonetics and Phonology
Instructor(s):
Jonah Katz
Review of empirical properties of synchronic phonological patterns commonly referred to as lenition (and sometimes its opposite, fortition); and theoretical approaches to those patterns.
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LING 251B - Topics in Phonetics and Phonology
Instructor(s):
Jonah Katz
Review of empirical properties of synchronic phonological patterns commonly referred to as lenition (and sometimes its opposite, fortition); and theoretical approaches to those patterns.
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LING 252A - Topics in Syntax and Semantics
Instructor(s):
Ethan Poole, Timothy Hunter
Study of linguistic constructions that allow for multiple dependencies of same type to occur together. Exploration of constructions that might allow analogous discoveries to be made about what kinds of additional mechanisms are required beyond plain hierarchical structure-building (i.e., context-free grammars or tree-merging with finite categorization). Examination of relevant phenomena including multiple-wh constructions, scrambling, Germanic verb clusters, and remnant movement.
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LING 252B - Topics in Syntax and Semantics
Instructor(s):
Ethan Poole, Timothy Hunter
Study of linguistic constructions that allow for multiple dependencies of same type to occur together. Exploration of constructions that might allow analogous discoveries to be made about what kinds of additional mechanisms are required beyond plain hierarchical structure-building (i.e., context-free grammars or tree-merging with finite categorization). Examination of relevant phenomena including multiple-wh constructions, scrambling, Germanic verb clusters, and remnant movement.
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LING 254A - Topics in Linguistics
Instructor(s):
Laurel Perkins, Astrid De Wit
Study of Bayesian computational models of language learning. Exploration of how this approach to computational modeling can be used to answer questions about roles that children's hypothesis spaces and their experience with data play in the linguistic generalizations that they draw. Introduction to Bayesian models. Survey of ways that these models have been applied to study of language learning across different linguistic domains including sound, syntax, and meaning. Study designed to build understanding of how Bayesian inference works, techniques that can be used to apply it in different settings, and how this approach compares to other symbolic computational approaches to learning. Study looks at formal literature, and covers relevant mathematics fundamentals as needed.
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LING 254B - Topics in Linguistics: Bayesian Models of Language Learning
Instructor(s):
Laurel Perkins
Study of Bayesian computational models of language learning. Exploration of how this approach to computational modeling can be used to answer questions about roles that children's hypothesis spaces and their experience with data play in the linguistic generalizations that they draw. Introduction to Bayesian models. Survey of ways that these models have been applied to study of language learning across different linguistic domains including sound, syntax, and meaning. Study designed to build understanding of how Bayesian inference works, techniques that can be used to apply it in different settings, and how this approach compares to other symbolic computational approaches to learning. Study looks at formal literature, and covers relevant mathematics fundamentals as needed.
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LING 254B - Topics in Linguistics
Instructor(s):
Astrid De Wit
Study centered on set of international student interviews in which they reflect on language attitudes. Interviews cover topics such as global status of English, and role of this language for speakers of smaller languages such as Dutch; relative importance of speaking and writing correctly; and status of formal and informal language use. Analysis of these interviews from multiple sociolinguistic angles to reveal power of language in step-by-step fashion, from microanalytic level to more macroanalytic level.
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LING 260B - Seminar: Phonetics
Instructor(s):
Margaret Cychosz
Seminar, three hours. May be taken independently for credit. May not be applied toward MA or PhD degree requirements when taken for 2 units. May be repeated for credit. S/U grading.
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LING 261B - Seminar: Phonology
Instructor(s):
Benjamin Eischens
Seminar, three hours. May be taken independently for credit. May not be applied toward MA or PhD degree requirements when taken for 2 units. May be repeated for credit. S/U grading.
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LING 262B - Syntax Seminar
Instructor(s):
Ethan Poole
Seminar, three hours. May be taken independently for credit. May not be applied toward MA or PhD degree requirements when taken for 2 units. May be repeated for credit. S/U grading.
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LING 264B - Seminar: Psycholinguistics/Neurolinguistics
Instructor(s):
Laurel Perkins
Seminar, three hours. Special topics may include child language, neurolinguistics, psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, etc. May be taken independently for credit. May not be applied toward MA degree requirements when taken for 2 units. May be repeated for credit. S/U grading.
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LING 265B - American Indian Linguistics Seminar
Instructor(s):
Pamela Munro
Seminar, two hours; fieldwork, four hours. Presentation of research on American Indian linguistics. May be taken independently for credit. May not be applied toward MA or PhD degree requirements when taken for 1 unit. May be repeated for credit. S/U grading.
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LING 275 - Linguistics Colloquium
Instructor(s):
Megha Sundara
Preparation: completion of requirements. Varied linguistic topics, generally presentations of new research by students, faculty, and visiting scholars. S/U grading.
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LING 276 - Linguistics Colloquium
Instructor(s):
Megha Sundara
Designed for graduate students. Same as course 275, but taken without credit by students not presenting a colloquium. S/U grading.
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LING 403 - Practical Phonetics Training
Instructor(s):
Sun-ah Jun
Extensive practice in production, perception, and transcription of sounds from a wide range of languages. Concurrently scheduled with practical sections of course 103. S/U grading.
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LING 422 - Practicum: Phonetic Data Analysis
Instructor(s):
Sun-ah Jun
Designed for graduate students. Workshop in examination of phonetic data, such as sound spectrograms, oscillographic records, and computer output. May not be applied toward MA or PhD degree requirements. S/U grading.
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LING 444 - MA Thesis Preparation Seminar
Instructor(s):
Stefan Keine
Seminar, two hours. Regular student presentations of MA thesis topics and progress, with discussion and criticism by other students and faculty. Presentations by faculty and guest speakers on topics relevant to professional development, such as abstract writing and conference presentations, preparing manuscripts for publication, curriculum vitae and personal websites, academic and non-academic careers in linguistics. May not be applied toward MA or PhD degree requirements. S/U grading.
