Graduate Courses

If a course has the “Instructor Consent” enrollment restriction, please contact the instructor to request a Permission to Enroll (PTE) number. For LING 275, please contact both the instructor and the Graduate Student Affairs Officer.

Not every class is offered every quarter. To see if a class meets in the current quarter or future quarter in the current academic year, as well as the time and location, please go to the Linguistics Department’s Course Schedule page.

LING 59x courses are offered every academic quarter but not listed here.

A number of courses, particularly proseminars, have content that varies from one offering to the next. Please see the pages below for descriptions.

Winter 2026

  • LING 201A - Phonological Theory II

    Instructor(s): Jonah Katz

    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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • LING C204A - Experimental Phonetics

    Instructor(s): Sylvia Cho, Coralie Cram

    (Formerly numbered 204A.) Lecture, four hours; discussion, one hour (when scheduled). Requisite: course 102 or 103. Survey of principal techniques of experimental phonetics. Use of laboratory equipment to investigate acoustic properties of speech. Topics include experimental design; theoretical basis of acoustic structure of speech sounds; computer-based speech processing and analysis. Concurrently scheduled with course C104. S/U or letter grading.

  • LING 210A - Field Methods I

    Instructor(s): Benjamin Eischens

    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.

  • LING 213C - Linguistic Processing

    Instructor(s): Jesse Harris

    Lecture, four hours. Requisites: courses 165B and/or 200B. Recommended: courses 132 or 232, 201B. Survey of theoretical perspectives and contemporary empirical research in human processing of language (comprehension and/or production), with emphasis on syntactic processing, ambiguity resolution, effects of memory load, and relationship between grammar and processor. S/U or letter grading.

  • LING 215 - Syntactic Typology

    Instructor(s): William Torrence

    Lecture, four hours. Requisite: course 200B. Current results in word-order universals; genetic classification of world's languages; cross-language properties of specific construction types, including relative clauses, passives, positive and negative coreference systems, agreement systems, deixis systems, and types of sentence complements. S/U or letter grading.

  • LING 254 - Topics in Linguistics: Explanations for Sentence Processing

    Instructor(s): John Duff

    Research on human sentence processing has provided many generalizations about incremental comprehension: input is often mapped to meaning greedily, predictively, noisily, etc. Why does sentence processor work like this, and not in some other way? Review of variety of literature with this goal of explanation. In parallel with classic and modern studies in sentence processing, exploration of how this problem shape arises in general cognitive science, with special focus on approaches to skill learning and resource rationality. Study may address related questions in theories of linguistic competence.

  • LING 260B - Seminar: Phonetics

    Instructor(s): Sun-ah Jun

    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.

  • LING 261B - Seminar: Phonology

    Instructor(s): Kie Zuraw

    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.

  • LING 262B - Syntax Seminar

    Instructor(s): Anoop Mahajan

    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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.